Ten Most Wanted:Hunting down missing information

about cultural artefacts

Presented by

Susan Lambert Marcus Winter ∙ ∙ Phil Blume

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A research project with three partners:

The Museum of Design in PlasticsArts University BournemouthSusan Lambert, Museum Head

Interactive Technologies Research Group University of BrightonDr Lyn Pemberton, ReaderMarcus Winter, Research Fellow

Adaptive Technologies LimitedPhil Blume, Project Manager

1. The problem we address

2. Research aspects

3. Design decisions

4. How it works

5. Wrap up

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In the absence of maker’s marks, packaging or additional information, we are left only with the intrinsic properties of size, colour, material and process.

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Who?

Where?

Designed by?

Made by?

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Collections can contain many thousands, or even tens of thousands of artefacts.

So where to begin?

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Jeff Howe, 2005

Credit: Random House Business

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Correction & Transcription

Contextualisation

Classification

ComplementingCollection

Co-curation

Oomen & Aroyo (2011)

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Where do we fit in?

Game-based crowd-sourcing: types of participation

Casual games Exploratory games

Single-user Multi-user

Crowd Community

Ridge (2011)

Ridge (2011)

Haythornthwaite (2009)

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What’s new?

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Research questions

R1 - How to design, promote and facilitate

complex crowdsourcing games for collections?

R2 - How to integrate user-generated content with curated collection data?

R3 - How to deal with IPR issues in a transparent, non-limiting, user-friendly way?

The FBI focus the search and ask the public.www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten

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So we borrowed from the FBIwww.10most.org.uk

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Social media channels were established to promote the discussions.

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Facebook group 10mostinvolved

Google+Ten Most Wanted

Twitter@TenMost

Social media APIs are used to pull the posts into the website home page.

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Posts are then filtered into the individual object pages.

Key discoveries in the investigation are recorded in the case notes.

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Case notes are an important part of the process.

1.Visitors can see progress without reading the entire narrative.

2.The key discoveries are recorded in our own domain.

1.This evidence is summarised in a museum context.

2.Contributors can be credited by name.

Credits earn points and points earn prizes.

Hall of Fame

Promotion

Certificate

Opportunity to manage cases

Opportunity to blog

Invitation to our Summer Party

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Players are asked to agree to our Terms & Conditions on sign-up.

These are summarised in three bullet points linked to a long form document.

Put simply, a contributor owns their own stuff and we have IPR clearance to use it.

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Case number - AIBDC : 005528

Designer Unknown - WantedManufacturer BysonCountry UKDate 1920 - 1959 (circa) - WantedDimensions height 38 mm

width 135 mmdepth 20 mm

Materials plastic, phenol formaldehyde,bakelite - generic term

Method compression mouldedInscription ""Byson" Design and method

of manufacture Pat. in England& Abroad No. 392800. Testedand approved. Serial 924. Good Housekeeping Institute. Conducted by Good Housekeeping Magazine." (Under clip)

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Playing the game…

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Playing the game…

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Making the case

[…]

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What we have learnt so far:

1.Case notes seem a good way to> summarise findings> present evidence> credit players

2.Game mechanics and reward structures are a difficult topic due to participants’ different backgrounds and motivations

3.The “crowd” has amazing expertise

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http://10most.org.uk/

slambert [at] aub.ac.ukmarcus.winter [at] brighton.ac.uk

phil.blume [at] adaptivetechnologies.com

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