Crowdsourcing cultural heritage: public participation and conflict legacy in Finland. Issue 2 (4th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Seitsonen, Oula
• Is Part Of: Journal of community archaeology & heritage. Volume 4:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 115
• Page End: 130
• Publication Date: 2017-05-04
• Subjects: crowdsourcing -- Participatory Geographical Information Systems (PGIS) -- cultural heritage -- user behaviour -- topic modelling; Community archaeology -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 930.1
• DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2016.1252129
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2051-8196

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Following a recent worldwide boom in the democratization of knowledge, crowdsourcing and Participatory GIS, heritage practice increasingly draws on crowdsourced geographical data. In this paper, I discuss a public crowdsourcing of twentieth century conflict heritage in Finland, launched by state-owned broadcasting company Yleisradio . Here emphasis is on analysing the user behaviour and incentives, which can inform analogous future initiatives. Many of the public entries mirror local perspectives on conflict heritage: pride of personally important loci and self-satisfaction appear to be important incentives for taking part. Finally, I summarize themes that other heritage crowdsourcing organizers could apply to their work.