tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730930067468816440.post1684839436212801750..comments2024-03-20T16:54:00.918-05:00Comments on Collaborative Manuscript Transcription: A Gresham's Law for Crowdsourcing and Scholarship?Ben W. Brumfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363399128262210534noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730930067468816440.post-79557649966636688972013-10-22T11:07:25.041-05:002013-10-22T11:07:25.041-05:00@Ben: Aha, I see. That's where my reading of y...@Ben: Aha, I see. That's where my reading of your blogpost went wrong. ;-) Sorry for that.<br /><br />And yes, I suppose that you're right about the 'old guard'. Although among those Dutch scholars who were interviewed, some of them were about my age (and I still considder myself pretty young! :-))<br /><br />Perhaps scholars are just not familiar with projects like these. (The Dutch scholars in the interview, for example, had a very clear opinion about Twitter, but as so many people who have so, had no experience with the medium for themselves.)<br /><br />Back to crowdsourcing: perhaps when the people behind projects that could be considdered 'typical' for a 'crowd' of scholars, would do specific outreach there, there would be more participation from them.<br /><br />For example, hold meetings in which the projects are explained especially to scholars, and the possible scholary use and value of the projects is explained. And where also is explained, what the benefit for them is of working 'online'.<br /><br />At such meetings one could also ask for why scholars would hesitate to use the public forums and such. And then, you could see whether there's a 'sollution' for that, which will take their hesitation away. And perhaps there are no 'sollutions'. If someone is 'afraid', for example, of his/her 'reputation', then there's little you can do, I suppose...<br /><br />Well, it's not really my 'world', but it's interesting to think about this!Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13491501757175597755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730930067468816440.post-61338356033787526122013-10-22T03:45:29.639-05:002013-10-22T03:45:29.639-05:00It's more accurate to say that 80% of the tota...It's more accurate to say that 80% of the total contributions came in on the public forum, but 0% of the contributions from "professional scholars" were posted on the forum.<br /><br />I agree that there are strong parallels between the Twitter study you mention and this -- perhaps the old guard is just more comfortable using the old ways for a multitude of reasons?Ben W. Brumfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363399128262210534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730930067468816440.post-18141635134335662362013-10-22T00:32:49.634-05:002013-10-22T00:32:49.634-05:00Interesting reading, Ben! Still, I would also like...Interesting reading, Ben! Still, I would also like to emphasize that 80% of the scholars díd comment on the public forum.<br /><br />Recently I read an article in which a few Dutch scholars were asked for their use of Twitter, related to their profession and research. None of them used it for that.<br /><br />Their reasons for this lack of Twitter use, all sounded a bit like the thoughts expressed through the Twitter mentions in your post.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13491501757175597755noreply@blogger.com