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CILIP MmIT invite you to a half-day event on
The wisdom of the crowd? Crowdsourcing for information professionals on the afternoon of Monday 19 March at the University of Huddersfield HD1 3DH
Cost: free for members of CILIP / MmIT and £40 for non-members of CILIP or MmIT.
Crowdsourcing is the practice of engaging a ‘crowd’ or group to work toward a common goal - this may be solving a problem, creating a resource or artefact, or developing a service. How can library and information
professionals utilise this in their professional practice? Join MmIT on 19th March to find out with speakers from the British Library, the University of Huddersfield & the University of Leeds, and delegates from a range of library sectors.
Programme outline:
- Welcome and introduction
- The phenomenon of crowdsourcing
- Crowdsourcing: the British Library experience
- Refreshments
- Workshop activity: crowdsourcing in your service or workplace
- Examples of crowdsourcing with Wikipedia:
the Open Access WikiProject and Hosting a Wikipedia Editathon
