Community Defined Sample Clauses

Community Defined. Digital community is a very broad concept and one that is still developing as people continue to interact more and more in the digital space. In the context of GLAM crowdsourcing, there are almost no scenarios in which a digital community does not form, as people have to gather around some form of subject, topic, or practice in order for something to qualify as crowdsourcing. However, there are four key types of community that can be observed to develop in the crowdsourcing context and to which the sustainability model established later in in this chapter can be applied. First, there is the community of engagement that is developed through active participation by digital citizens. The move of civic engagement from the physical space to the digital one is inherent in the cultural heritage crowdsourcing context because nearly all participants are volunteers or employees of a cultural heritage institution and their shared goal is to complete projects that create outputs for use by either researchers or the public. Crowdsourcing projects are often communities built for engaging one or both of these groups who stand to benefit from the work being done. One example of this are the subjects from the By the People project such as Subject B who felt their dedication to the project was even an extension of their dedication to the US constitution in their defense of free speech. Second, there is a community of practice that arises from volunteers’ disparate and distant membership of crowdsourcing projects, volunteers who often have little in common beyond the shared work they do. Crowdsourcers can be identified by the very term “crowdsourcing” as people who come together to do microtasks or to commit small amounts of their time that in aggregate works towards a large-scale project. This type of community can exist apart from any institutional context because it is the style of work that crowdsourcers have in common, not necessarily the specific tasks or topics. Crowdsourcing in effect is a type of lifestyle and the commonality among participants in that lifestyle have helps to form community. The HHAR project is an example of this type of community where social bonds and careers were made from people all around the world based on what they learned about archiving and processing records for the project. Third, there is the community of exchange, as crowdsourcing projects often shift and grow based on the input of participants and vice versa. Participants acquire skill...