Modeling Community: Community Sourcing Sample Clauses

Modeling Community: Community Sourcing. One of the ongoing debates in the cultural heritage crowdsourcing space is whether ‘crowdsourcing’ is in fact the most appropriate term to describe it. Several alternative phrases and portmanteau terms have been proposed, and among them the term ‘community sourcing’ appears frequently. The 203 ‘Digital Citizenship | Bio Information’, bigideas, accessed 15 December 2021, xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/portfolio. 204 Xxxxx, Xxxxx. Digital Community, Digital Citizen. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Xxxxxx Press, 0000.xx 35 205 Ibid 206 The MIT Press, ‘Digital Citizenship | The MIT Press’ (The MIT Press), accessed 2 September 2020, xxxxx://xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx/books/digital-citizenship. 207 Appendix B definition of this term can be quite loose; for example, Xxxxxx Xxxxx from Community Round Table describes it more as a “feeling of togetherness rather than an explicit and definable idea.”208 Scholars such as Xxx Xxxxx provide a narrower definition that focuses on specific types of relationships created between volunteers and institutions.209 Getting clarity on the debate over the use of the term ‘community sourcing’ and its competitors is beneficial, as it enables us to derive a sense of what at least some among the cultural heritage sector currently see as a community. That pre-existing perspective within the GLAM industry helps to establish a framework to build a more specific and nuanced definition of community upon. Community sourcing is typically defined by the ways in which it restricts relationships between a cultural heritage institution and potential participants in a digital project. The first appearance of the term, in a marketing blog in 2010, simply defines community sourcing as a closed system “by invitation only, so this represents a private space to have conversations that aren’t open to the world.”210 In this sense, then, community sourcing is defined by limiting access to discussion and the cultivation of a community of exclusivity. The blog goes on to give more context to this exclusivity and explains that the community is closed off only to those who do not have a stake in the project itself.211 In this respect, the definition has similarities with that proposed by Xxx Xxxxx, when exploring alternatives to the term “crowdsourcing”, such as “nichesourcing” or “citizen historians.” Xxxxx defines the participants in a community sourcing project as being identified by their shared interest and investment in the topic of the project.212 The exclusivity of the...