Digital Libraries and Crowdsourcing: A Review

Abstract

The development of crowdsourcing in libraries is particularly important in the domain of optical character recognition (OCR) correction. Crowdsourcing finds its conceptual origin in diametrically opposed ideologies such as socialism, libertarianism, humanism or liberalism, where the Californian Ideology would accomplish the most propitious synthesis for the development of crowdsourcing. It applied to libraries could also be considered a form of library uberization. Sometimes considered institutional begging, crowdfunding is indeed a form of crowdsourcing that calls not on the work of Internet users, but on their financial resources. In libraries, it can be used to acquire documents or to finance digitization. On-demand digitization allows libraries to offer digital reproduction services by having Internet users support the costs, outsourcing part of the costly, thankless task of selecting documents that still deserve to be digitized and obviously completing their digitization programs.