Humanities Crowdsourcing
Humanities Crowdsourcing

Summary/Abstract: Purpose/Thesis: The management literature provides a generic model of crowdsourcing for all applications. This paper is a discussion of selected features of crowdsourcing applied in science and humanities in comparison to citizen sciences. It emphasizes the relationship between the model of crowdsourcing used in humanities research and the debate on the research infrastructure. Approach/Methods: The comparative analysis of humanities crowdsourcing models based on the review of academic literature and current crowdsourcing projects. Results and conclusions: Crowdsourcing modeling attempts do not result in a unified approach to e-collaboration and single model of e-science. The humanities have their own issues and resources, deal with cultural diversity and are supported by appropriate methodologies. Moreover, the standardization of the description of issues studied by the humanities and modeling of humanities research practices cannot really reduce their own diversity. Further research must be conducted on the evolution of learning practices and methods of collaboration. Originality/Value: The comparison of approaches to the phenomenon of crowdsourcing used in academic literature on management, the analysis of crowdsourcing practices in citizen sciences and crowdsourcing patterns in humanities literature.

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