Crowdsourcing at the Upper Austrian Federal State Library

Abstract

As part of the Digital Library of Upper Austria (DLOÖ; https://digi.landesbibliothek.at), the Upper Austrian Federal State Library operates an extensive crowdsourcing module for more than five years. The module consists of different parts which have various functions for data enrichment and the improvement of automatically created full texts. At the beginning of the article, it deals with the definition of crowdsourcing and its classification into related terms. After a list of decisive points for the successful use of this technique, a presentation of the reasons for the implementation of crowdsourcing within the DLOÖ is discussed. In the main part, the article devotes itself in detail to the individual module parts, explain functionalities and benefits as well as their previous areas of application and reports on future developments and goals.