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• Interestingly, paintings can be 'retired' from the Tagger once enough data has been gathered
• the inherent reward of participating in the activity was a bigger motivator than competitiveness,
• definitions of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage: 'a form of engagement that contributes towards a shared, significant goal or research question by asking the public to undertake tasks that cannot be done automatically' or 'productive public engagement with the mission and work of memory institutions'.
• it has to produce results of value to the research community in less time than could have been done by other means
• built a focused 'talk' tool which can programmatically filter out the most interesting unanswered comments and email them to their 30 or 40 expert users
• full text transcriptions (difficult to automatically reconcile) vs 'rich

  metadata'
• in some projects, interactions with a central authority are valued, in others, community interactions are really important.
• The potential and dangers of 'gamification' and 'badgeification' and their potentially negative impact on motivation were raised
• have you met participants in real life?' - answer, yes, and it was an opportunity to learn from them

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