Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice Create Business Accelerators to Encourage PSI Re-Use

Source: https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/wiki/Best_Practices/Encourage_crowdsourcing

Outline

Crowd sourcing can be an efficient way to increase quality and availability of machine readable data, in particular to help cultural heritage institutions to open up PSI. On a policy level, identifying community crowd-sourced projects outside government institutions can also be an indicator of valuable datasets that should be prioritized for open release.

Management summary

Challenge

Many institutions lack resources necessary to manually go through large collections of unstructured data that has been created.

Solution

By engaging external communities to collaborate on large collections of information it is possible to create more detailed machine readable data supporting a wider range of re-use cases.

Best Practice identification

Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice

• It contributes to sustainable open data and PSI re-use initiatives.
• It will increase the amount of machine readable open datasets, supporting a wider range of use-cases in services and applications.
• Through this initiatives, the community will be more engaged with the public activities.

Links to the PSI Directive

Reuse

Why is there a need for this Best Practice?

Many institutions lack resources necessary to manually go through large collections of unstructured data, which are really valuable for a subsequent reuse.

What do you need for this Best Practice?

• The public institution that will implement the crowdsourced project, must be aware of the subjacent licences of the data and systems, as well as the legal limits of the exposition and management of the information to interact with.
• The institution should define and perform the crowdsourcing initiative:
  • Planning phase:
    • Identify the exact need first and then seek groups able to support solving that need via crowd-sourcing.
    • Think of crowd sourcing as another tool to create/improve data sets and think about the phases of your data collection project and where crowd sourcing could best fit in
    • Involve stakeholders who could benefit from a free source of certain data sets and have them provide funding in order to sustain crowd sourcing efforts
  • Implementation phase:
    • The tasks have to be really small tasks
    • Utilize gamification approach
    • Use crowdsourcing without the users knowledge.

Applicability to other Member States

This best practice is applicable in all countries.

Contact info

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Related Best Practices

• Best practices/Engage community in building complete, accurate, up to date public open databases