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Interestingly, paintings can be 'retired' from the Tagger once enough data has been gathered
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the inherent reward of participating in the activity was a bigger motivator than competitiveness,
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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'.
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it has to produce results of value to the research community in less time than could have been done by other means
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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
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full text transcriptions (difficult to automatically reconcile) vs 'rich metadata'
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in some projects, interactions with a central authority are valued, in others, community interactions are really important.
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The potential and dangers of 'gamification' and 'badgeification' and their potentially negative impact on motivation were raised
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have you met participants in real life?' - answer, yes, and it was an opportunity to learn from them
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