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Crowdsourcing Ukrainian Folklore Audio ProjectCrowdsourcing Ukrainian Folklore
Audio Project
Megan Sellmer, Geoffrey Rockwell, Natalie Kononenko, Maryna
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Chernyavska
Crowdsourcing is a popular method for getting a large projectdone by using a ???crowd??? of volunteer participants. Scholars areusing crowdsourcing to complete large-scale projects, and involvingthe larger community of the humanities. Most humanities uses ofcrowdsourcing have been focused on textual materials like the SudaOn Line project, which applies the power of the crowd totranslating a Byzantine Encyclopedia. [1] The Ukrainian FolkloreAudio Project with support from SSHRC is experimenting withcrowdsourcing, or as we call it, groupsourcing, for the tagging,translating and transcribing of audio. In this paper we will do thefollowing:GET QUOTE FROM ARTICLE
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- *1. Discuss the uses of crowdsourcing in the humanities.
- *2. Demonstrate our audio folklore groupsourcing tool.
- *3. Talk about the challenges we face involving a community of
Ukrainian speakers in research.
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1. Uses of crowdsourcing in humanities research';this.style.color = '#ff0000';" onMouseOut = "this.innerHTML = 'Uses of crowdsourcing in humanities research';this.style.color = '#000000';">Uses of crowdsourcing in humanities researchInvolving
participants in research is not a 21st century invention. The
Oxford English Dictionary could be considered an early example of
crowdsourcing. The Internet, however, provides us with a
communications channel that facilitates the distribution of small
research tasks and automatic integration of volunteer
contributions. There have therefore been a number of digital
humanities projects that use crowdsourcing starting including The
Dictionary of Words in the Wild <http://lexigraphi.ca>, Suda On Line
< http://www.stoa.org/sol/>, and
Transcribe Bentham <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/>.
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Ukrainian Folklore Audio Project is a smaller example.Demonstrate the Ukrainian Folklore Audio Site';this.style.color = '#ff0000';" onMouseOut = "this.innerHTML = '. The
Ukrainian Folklore Audio Project is a smaller example.Demonstrate the Ukrainian Folklore Audio Site';this.style.color = '#000000';">. The
Ukrainian Folklore Audio Project is a smaller example.Demonstrate the Ukrainian Folklore Audio SiteHow can
groupsourcing help folklore studies. Dr. Kononenko has gathered
hundreds of hours of recordings of songs, narratives and beliefs in
Ukraine community. These materials have been available online
through a research site, but there is no transcript to search and
only a topical index for navigation. [2] To enhance this site this
project has developed a custom tool that can handle audio
transcriptions so that volunteers in the community can sign out
clips, tag them and then either transcribe or translate them.
People who are interested in and understand Ukraine language and
folklore will test the tool, geography does not play a role in
selecting participants.
3. Design and Motivation Challenges';this.style.color = '#ff0000';" onMouseOut = "this.innerHTML = 'Design and Motivation Challenges';this.style.color = '#000000';">Design and Motivation ChallengesAn important issue for
us is motivating and supporting community members. The design of
the website was kept simple to meet the needs of the user.
Participants may be elderly members of the Ukrainian community who
have limited technology experience, so we designed the website to
be accessible for everyone. In the presentation we will discuss the
design decisions in terms of our engagement with a unique
community. This project also explores the influence of ethnicity on
a community and the emotions that surface when working with the
audio clips that reflect a specific culture. We theorize that not
only are these aspects unique and important to the project but that
they are the behind participant motivation. We hope a group of
community researchers will form around the project that can enhance
this important folklore resource.
[1] Mahoney, Anne. ???Tachypaedia Byzantina: The Suda On Line as
Collaborative Encyclopedia.??? Digital Humanities Quarterly. 3.1
(2009).
[2] Ukrainian Folklore Sound Recordings. <http://projects.tapor.ualberta.ca/UkraineAudio/>.