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  • Online volunteering at DigiVol: an innovative crowd-sourcing approach for heritage tourism artefacts preservation

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    Alony, Irit
    Haski-Leventhal, Debbie
    Lockstone-Binney, Leonie
    Holmes, Kirsten
    Meijs, Lucas CPM
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Lockstone-Binney, Leonie
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    Most museums find that the resources required to transform from curators into providers of heritage and cultural tourism exceed those available to them. One way of addressing this challenge is through volunteer programs to assist in heritage tourism artefacts preservation. This article is based on a case study of an innovative crowd-sourcing initiative of integrating on-site and online volunteers for the preservation and documentation of heritage artefacts: the DigiVol program at the Australian Museum, Sydney. This large citizen science volunteer program has digitised an unprecedented portion of the museum’s collections and ...
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    Most museums find that the resources required to transform from curators into providers of heritage and cultural tourism exceed those available to them. One way of addressing this challenge is through volunteer programs to assist in heritage tourism artefacts preservation. This article is based on a case study of an innovative crowd-sourcing initiative of integrating on-site and online volunteers for the preservation and documentation of heritage artefacts: the DigiVol program at the Australian Museum, Sydney. This large citizen science volunteer program has digitised an unprecedented portion of the museum’s collections and has been recognised in Australia and internationally as a best practice ‘volunteer digitisation service’ model. Seeking further empirical support for the emerging concept of ‘recruitability’ from the volunteering literature (i.e. the ability of volunteer organisations to recruit and retain volunteers), this research used case study methodology. Based on interviews, focus groups, and document analyses, the article identifies key elements of innovation and effectiveness in DigiVol practices. The article concludes with recommendations for programs wishing to follow best practice and expand their recruitability, to digitise and preserve artefacts, and therefore support science, tourism and education.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Heritage Tourism
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2018.1557665
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies on 19 Feb 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2018.1557665
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Urban and Regional Planning
    Tourism
    Human Geography
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/387673
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