Dear Gail,
I too had fun with this. From your description and the experience, I assumed
that what I was being asked to choose were the crops for the thumbnails, as
it were, rather than the representative image for the object and associated
object record. I did test this out as at first I was unsure. While choosing
the crop and the zoom of preference it was possible to go to the full object
record and a 'proper' museum image.
I envisaged this as aiding the run of images people get on results pages and
similar and not object record images themselves? Is this right?
It's an interesting and worthy experiment, do you think you can keep a
momentum rumbling in the background to achieve the goal in a reasonable time
so that you can start using the most preferred crops?
With all good wishes,
Tehmina
On 3 February 2010 16:22, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I had assumed the latter, especially as I have no such faith in my choices
> being correct, or at least representative of the collective view. Abusive,
> no. Dodgy, possibly!
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Frankie Roberto
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:19 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: V&A Crowdsourcing
> >
> > On 3 February 2010 15:35, Gail Durbin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > The V&A has just launched a crowdsourcing application in
> > Beta attached
> > > to Search the Collections:
> > > http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/
> > > This enables people to help us improve the crop on our images. We
> > > would be very interested in your responses.
> >
> >
> > A quick question: are you showing each object to a single
> > user, or are you showing each object to multiple uses, in the
> > hope that they confirm each other's choices (which is how
> > Amazon's Mechanical Turk is designed)? I'm assuming the
> > former (as it seems unlikely that there'd be much abuse/dodgy
> > choices), but if it's the latter, then I may have to adjust
> > my prediction.
> > :-)
> >
> > Frankie
> >
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