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Crowdsourcing—an Introduction: From Public Goods to Public Good
Author(s) -
Proctor Nancy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/cura.12010
Subject(s) - crowdsourcing , outsourcing , crowdsourcing software development , competition (biology) , public good , data science , sociology , public relations , political science , world wide web , business , computer science , marketing , economics , ecology , software construction , software , software system , microeconomics , biology , programming language
“Crowdsourcing” is a practice that combines the concepts of “the crowd” and “outsourcing.” Introducing two articles on crowdsourcing in this issue, Nancy Proctor argues that—although we associate crowdsourcing with Web 2.0 and the social media revolution—its origins stretch back to the nineteenth century. Crowdsourcing is examined for its usefulness in creating radical new relationships between museum constituents, users, and institutions—putting the “wisdom of the crowd” in dialogue rather than in competition with formal institutional knowledge.