Mita Society for Library and Information Science 174th Monthly Meeting: "Library Initiatives Utilizing Microtask Crowdsourcing"
Event Date
Event Venue
February 14, 2018
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Date and Time | Saturday, March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. |
Location | Room 435, South School Building, Keio University (Mita Campus) |
Speaker | Mr. Mitsuyuki Ikeda (Academic Link Center, Chiba University) |
Eligibility | Open to everyone. No prior registration is required. |
Fee |
Free for members of the Mita Society for Library and Information Science
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Summary
For the past decade, numerous projects have been developed both in Japan and internationally that utilize crowdsourcing, a mechanism for accomplishing initiatives requiring significant human and time resources—such as the digitization of materials and metadata entry—by leveraging the power of a large, undefined group of people. This presentation will focus on and explain microtask crowdsourcing, a method that breaks down problems into smaller tasks, and will serve as a forum to consider the use of crowdsourcing in the library field.