The Walt Whitman Archiveand the prospects for social editing

Value co‐creation in cultural heritage information practices: Literature review and future agenda: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

“…For example, Tencent, one of China's Internet giants, has launched the TANYUAN Project (https://tanyuan.qq.com/home) in recent years to digitize cultural heritage to help the VCC from different perspectives. Academic institutions can contribute to cultural heritage information practices by providing expertise and scientific research (Zhao et al, 2020), and many high-impact cultural heritage digitization projects have the support of academic institutions (Hu et al, 2018;Kumpulainen & Late, 2022;Liang et al, 2020;Price, 2016;Tedd, 2011). Finally, both traditional mass media and emerging social media are important channels to help publicize and promote information practices in the cultural heritage field (Sabharwal, 2021;Tedd, 2011).…”

Facilitating Reusable Third-Party Annotations in Digital Editions

“…It is possible that digital editors have not considered such technologies as relevant to their editions, or their implementation to be too expensive to include. Price (2016) discusses questions of quality control in the context of the Walt Whitman Archive: "How can the Archive best negotiate the roles of scholarly specialists and interested users, and in particular, how can quality control be established without discouraging user involvement?" In other words, editorial reticence may also be motivated by the fear of users adding inappropriate annotations, or having popular editions flooded with annotations that together make it difficult to see the forest for the trees.…”