Crowd-sourcing is defined by Wikipedia as ‘an activity normally performed by an employee of an organisation which is undertaken by a group of people or community in the form of an open call or mass collaboration’. Ok, so the notion of people coming together to help achieve a common aim where the benefits extend beyond the group is as old as… but web 2.0 makes is a lot more feasible.
As OOKL’s aim is to help venues publish their digital content it makes a lot of sense for us to introduce tools so that venues can enable their network (friends, volunteers, enthusiasts, academics, secondary school or university class) to create content on their behalf, while always remaining in control over the content.|
To start crowd-sourcing your collection today read this.