A working document from our book production process that might be a useful index to find specific case studies within the final book.
| Chapter title | Case Study Title | Topics/Coverage | Projects Mentioned |
| Choosing Tasks and Platforms | Case Study: Concordia/By the People design principles | Values-led design | By the People program at the Library of Congress |
| Choosing Tasks and Platforms | Perspective – the DigVentures collaborative platform for archaeology, Brendon Wilkins, Co-founder at DigVentures | Pipleine approach to builkding your own platform | DigVentures Collaborative Platform |
| Choosing Tasks and Platforms | Examples | Potential Conflicts | FamilySearch’s relationship with prison labor |
| Choosing Tasks and Platforms | Examples | Examples of Platforms | FromThePage, Zooniverse, Omeka + Scripto, Pybossa, Concordia, Madoc, and Transkribus. |
| Choosing Tasks and Platforms | Examples | Potential Conflicts | GitHub’s controversial decision to contract with ICE |
| Choosing Tasks and Platforms | Examples | Pipline Projects | The American Soldier in World War II |
| Choosing Tasks and Platforms | Examples | Examples of Platform Features | Zooniverse Project Builder |
| Choosing Tasks and Platforms | Perspective: Requirements for using the Zooniverse Project Builder — Samantha Blickhan, Zooniverse Humanities Lead | Zooniverse Project Builder | |
| Crowdsourcing Events | Case study: A note on inclusion within events | inclusion in events | Colored Conventions Project |
| Crowdsourcing Events | Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) | example of transcribathon | EMROC |
| Crowdsourcing Events | Case study: Europeana 1914-1918 | Different opportunities to contribute (beyond digital) | Eurpoeana |
| Crowdsourcing Events | Image du Monde Challenge / La Sfera Challenge | example | Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age |
| Crowdsourcing Events | Case study: Distributed collecting events: Lest We Forget | running in person events alongside digital | University of Oxford |
| Crowdsourcing Events | Online or Offline Wikimedia's Approach | example of a editathon | Wiki community |
Crowdsourcing Events | Example – hackathaon | ||
| Data | DigVentures ‘Born Digital’ project | toolkit for managing arch data created | DigVentures |
| Data | Newspaper Navigator from public domain crowdsourced data | data from one project in another, re-use licence | Newspaper Navigator, Beyond Words |
| Data | automation for optimizing volunteer effort | how automattion can help choose no of classifications needed | Snapshot Serengeti, Zooniverse |
| Data | Example: Single-track quality control: Wikisource | workflow for quality control in Wikisource | Wikisource |
| Data | testing the influence of Zooniverse platform-tools on the quality of transcription results | Zooniverse | |
| Data | Mutual Muses and alternatives to aggregation | alternative method for aggregating results | Zooniverse, Multual Muses |
| Data | Making Zooniverse data more easily re-usable with ALICE | data exports can be difficult to use. ALICE solves | Zooniverse, Transcribus, ALICE |
| Embedding Values | Lone Rock Convict Stockade Project | communicating Values | African American and Genealogical Societies of Nashville, Roberson Project on Race, Slavery and Reconciliation at Sewanee Uinv |
| Embedding Values | Dig Ventures and the Unloved Heritage Project | Productive Tensions – values and strategic design | Dig Ventures and the Unloved Heritage Project |
| Embedding Values | The British LIbrary's In the Spotlight | integrating values | The British Library's In the Spotlight |
| Embedding Values | Values in Action | communicating and integrating values | Wikimedia community |
| Evaluation | valuing contributor feedback | Gathering contributor feedback | Zooniverse + Living with Machines |
| Managing Cultural Cowdsourcing Heritage Projects | Perspective: DigVentures’ Culture Deck — Brendon Wilkins, Co-founder at DigVentures | Onboarding | DigVentures |
| Managing Cultural Cowdsourcing Heritage Projects | Example | Anecdotal reports of participants’ experiences | History Unfolded |
| Managing Cultural Cowdsourcing Heritage Projects | Example | Documenting participant experiences | Scribes of Cairo |
| Managing Cultural Cowdsourcing Heritage Projects | Perspective: Responding to participant feedback on the Zooniverse platform — Samantha Blickhan, Zooniverse Humanities Lead | Zooniverse | |
| Motivations | The Purposeful Gaming and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project | Animated games | games developed by Tiltfactor |
| Motivations | In the Spotlight participant motivations and demographics | Participant demographics | In the Spotlight at the British Library |
| Motivations | Prototyping social interactions with paid crowds in Second Opinion | Developing prototypes with paid crowds | Second Opinion |
| Motivations | Suffrage Campaigns at the Library of Congress | Setting collective goals | Suffrage: Women Fight for the Vote at the Library of Congress |
| Motivations | Perspective: WeDigFLPlants, Austin Mast | Deepening user engagement | WeDigFLPlans |
| Motivations | Collective goal for the community — WikiLovesMonuments | Photo uploading campaigns | Wiki Loves Monuments |
| Motivations | bringing motivations and activities together | Library of Virginia events "transcrib-a-versary" | |
| Motivations | Quotes from volunteer survey | why volunteer | |
| Motivations | Perspective: | study of volunteer perspectives and effect on project | Smithsonian Transcription Center |
| Motivations | Perspective: Recruiting hundreds-at-a-time, rather than one-at-a-time, for WeDigFLPlants—Austin Mast | WeDigFLPlants | |
| Motivations | Case study: Bringing motivations and activities together | about event | Library of Virginia “transcrib-a-versary” |
| Motivations | Case Study: Prototyping social interactions with paid crowds in Second Opinion | using MTurk for testing software | Second Opinion, Civil War Photo Sleuth |
| Motivations | Case Study: Suffrage Campaigns at the Library of Congress | collective sense of shared purpose | By The People |
| Motivations | Case Study: Collective goal for the community — WikiLovesMonuments | competition to generate sharable pictures of CH | Wikimedia |
| Motivations | Case Study: The Purposeful Gaming and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project | game as motivation | Biodiversity Heritage Library |
| Outreach and Community | Douglass Day and Partnerships | Project Partners – Partnerships and crowdsourced projects | Douglass Day and the Colored Conventions Project |
| Outreach and Community | Douglass Day and a Community of Practice | Governance for Outreach – Creating a Community of Practice | Douglass Day and the Colored Conventions Project |
| Outreach and Community | Douglass Day and Cultural Competency | Project Partners – Practicing Cultural Competency | Douglass Day and the Colored Conventions Project |
| Outreach and Community | Sample outreach guide for organizing diverse projects within Predominantly White Institutions | Organizing at and Beyond Predominantly White Institutions | Douglass Day and the Colored Conventions Project |
| Outreach and Community | Wikimedia Movemement | Bottom up governance and community | Wikimedia community |
| Outreach and Community | The Gender Gap in Wikimedia and Community Solutions | Investing in Inclusive Outreach – Addressing gender disparities in crowdsourced projects | Wikimedia community |
| Participants | Crowdsourcing in the Classroom, Student Learning in the History Unfolded Project | Working with students to gather materials | History Unfolded at the US Holocaust Museum |
| Participants | example | how call to action was made and then improved | By the People |
| Participants | [long quote from participant, similar to 'perspective'] | participant voice | – |
| Participants | Case study: Providing hooks and excuses to celebrate with mini-projects | motivation, lowering barriers to participation | Smithsonian and Notes from Nature |
| Project Design | Pilot testing to support iterative design | Transcribing line by line | Anti-Slavery Manuscripts at the Boston Public Library |
| Project Design | Pilot testing and scaling up in the Davy Notebooks Project | Davy Notebooks project | |
| Project Design | Lockdown 2020 | Role of communications staff | Lockdown 2020 |
| Project Design | Tool customization at the Newberry Library | Their custom tech stack | Newberry Transcribe |
| Project Design | The Great War Archive | Role of content specialists | The Great War Archive |
| Project Design | Custom projects on the Zooniverse platform | Zooniverse platfrom customization | |
| Project Design | The Zooniverse Project Builder | Glosses the project builder | Zooniverse Project Builder |
| Task Design | example | Annotation | BBC World Service Archive |
| Task Design | Virginia Tech’s Civil War Photo Sleuth | crowdsourcing and AI-based facial recognition | Civil War Photo Sleuth |
| Task Design | example | Participants uploading materials | eMammal |
| Task Design | example | transcription | Europeana Transcribathon |
| Task Design | Discussion notes on FromThePage | Wiki discussions & transparency | FromThePage |
| Task Design | example | Participants uploading materials | Great War Archive |
| Task Design | example | Participants uploading materials | History Unfolded |
| Task Design | HistoryPin | Uploading and mapping photos | Imperial War Museum + Year of the (San Francisco) Bay |
| Task Design | example | Participants uploading materials | iNaturalist |
| Task Design | Jawi Transcription Project | cross-linguistic tasks | Jawi Transcription Project |
| Task Design | example | Translation | Kriegestagebuch von Dieter Finzen |
| Task Design | example | Participants uploading materials | Letters of 1916 |
| Task Design | example | Identification | Library of Congress – “What’s the story? feature |
| Task Design | example | Participants uploading materials | Library of Virginia Civil War Legacy Collection |
| Task Design | example | OCR correction | National Library of Australia's Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program |
| Task Design | example | advancing participant skills | New York Times' Madison project |
| Task Design | example | Promoting user levels | Old Weather |
| Task Design | example | Translation | Suda On Line project |
| Task Design | example | Oral history | VT Stories |
| Task Design | example | editing Wikipedia articles | Wikipedia |
| Task Design | Wikimedia’s Content Translator | cross-linguistic tasks | Wikipedia |
| Task Design | ArtUK Tagger | humans & computers working together | Your Paintings Tagger |
| Task Design | example | transcription | Zenas Matthews' 1846 U.S.-Mexico War Diary (FromThePage) |
| What | example | example: proofreading | Building Inspector |
| What | example | example: “type what you see” (transcription) | By the People |
| What | example | example: “describe what you see” (tagging) | Flickr Commons |
| What | example | example: “share what you have” | Remembering Lincoln, Wikimedia Commons |
| What | example | example: “validate other inputs” (OCR correction) | Trove |
| What | example | example: “share what you know” | Wikipedia |
| What | example | example: generate data | Wikipedia, The Great War Archive |
| What | example | example: improving discoverability | Zooniverse: Tag Along with Adler |
| What | example | example: finding info ab source | Zooniverse: World Architecture Unlocked |
| Why | example | joy and delight of unexpected | British Library’s In the Spotlight |
| Why | Perspective: Unremembered Histories — Denise Burgher, | Accessibility, democratic decision making | Colored Conventions Movement (CCM) |
| Why | example | teokenistic bolt-ons | Living with Machines project |
| Why | example | message boards and engagement | Mapping Historic Skies |
| Why | example | crowdsourced mindset | NASA – open innovation |
| Why | example | collaborative models | Natural History Museum hosted Wikimedia project |
| Why | example | COVID-19 | Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society Papers. |
| Why | example | Scribes of the Cairo Geniza project | |
| Why | example | By the People | |
| Why | Perspective: designing for accessibility on FromThePage | Designing tasks for accessibility | Urdu to English transcription |
