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Crowdsourcing Ukrainian Folklore Audio Project
Crowdsourcing is a popular method for getting a large projectdone by using a ???crowd??? of people. Scholars are catching up andusing crowdsourcing to complete large-scale projects, and involvingthe larger community of the humanities. An example of crowdsourcingis Suda On Line, which applies the power of the crowd to translateand transcribe transcribe the
This project will use the crowd (or group in this case) totranscribe or translate recorded Ukrainian audio. The clips areexamples of stories, songs and Ukrainian beliefs. Volunteers willcheck out the audio clips from a website designed for the project.The motivation behind the volunteers is particularly interesting;their cultural pride may be one reason they volunteer. This paperwill describe the project as a multimedia example that leveragescrowdsourcing.
Therefore, in this paper we will
- Look at examples of previous scholarly crowdsourcing projects.
- Examine the website created specifically for this project;describing the interface design process.
- Walk through the translation/transcription process.
- Discuss the results of the project, the success of the project, and the motivation of the volunteers.
- Conclude with the potential impact of this project on future crowd sourcing projects and how the Ukrainian Folklore Audio Project will expand.
