Conference Agenda

Archives crowdsourcing differs from business crowdsourcing with notable user participation imbalances. Effective incentives rely on segmenting users by contribution quality and quantity into Core, Priority, Auxiliary, and Advantage types. These categories are fluid, and incentives must target user-specific behaviors to prioritize quality over quantity. Shifting from broad strategies to precise segmentation ensures the "right people" are motivated for meaningful contributions.

This paper, "User Segmentation and Differentiated Incentives in Archives Crowdsourcing Based on Contribution Dimensions,"addresses the issue of uneven user participation in archives crowdsourcing. It proposes user segmentation based on the quality and quantity of contributions, along with corresponding differentiated incentive strategies. The paper emphasizes that effective incentives must be grounded in an accurate understanding and segmentation of user types.

1.The uniqueness of archives crowdsourcing users

Unlike business crowdsourcing, archives crowdsourcing users exhibit high heterogeneity, with a small group of top users contributing most high-quality content. There are significant differences in their participation frequency, level, and expertise. The paper argues that the essence of incentives in archives crowdsourcing is to obtain more contributions, not just attract more participants.

2.Theoretical basis and practical need for user segmentation

The "90-9-1" rule categorizes users into three groups: super contributors, potential contributors, and observers. This rule highlights the extreme imbalance in user participation. Segmenting user types enables refined management and improves user engagement and contribution quality.

3.User segmentation and contribution characteristics

The paper develops a four-quadrant user matrix based on contribution dimensions, dividing users into four types: Core Focus Area Users (high quality and quantity), Priority Improvement Area Users (high quality, low quantity), Auxiliary Focus Area Users (low quality and quantity), and Advantage Maintenance Area Users (high quantity, low quality). Each group exhibits distinct contribution characteristics, including community expert users, scattered general expert users, low-activity users, and high-activity users.

4.Differentiated incentive strategies

（1）Core Focus Area Users

Dynamically identify and incentivize super users by granting them more rights and responsibilities, such as review authority and community management roles, to enhance their self-efficacy and influence.

（2）Priority Improvement Area Users

Encourage scattered experts to integrate into the community by providing platforms for deeper participation and exchange, increasing their contribution quantity.

（3）Auxiliary Focus Area Users

Attract new users and enhance social influence through gamification or reward points to encourage broad participation.

（4）Advantage Maintenance Area Users

Motivate sustained contributions and offer opportunities for continuous learning through professional training and feedback to improve contribution quality.

5.Conclusion

The paper underscores the need for a shift in archives crowdsourcing incentives from broad "mass strategies" to precise "segmentation strategies." By leveraging data mining to analyze user behavior and develop group profiles, targeted incentives can be implemented, resulting in more effective user participation and contributions.

This study provides a new framework for understanding and motivating archives crowdsourcing users, aiming to enhance the efficiency and success rate of knowledge contributions in such projects.

Despite the existence of a vast legal framework in Brazil and abroad, plus the finding among several researchers that the content presented in digital media does indeed have the potential to democratize access to information in all human activities - the implementation itself is not yet a reality in Brazilian administrative praxis. This paper aims to present the partial results of a thesis that dealt with aspects related to access to information for people with disabilities in Brazilian Public Archives.

Despite the existence of a vast legal framework in Brazil and abroad, plus the finding among several researchers that the content presented in digital media does indeed have the potential to democratize access to information in all human activities - the implementation itself is not yet a reality in Brazilian administrative praxis. Even with the technological advances promoted by the Internet, 1 billion people with disabilities in the world suffer from inequality in access to information. In Brazil, the 2022 National Household Sample Survey points out that about 18.6 million out of 203 million Brazilians are people with disabilities. In addition, the Access to Information Brazilian Law of 2011 determines that the availability of information in web environments is understandable, accessible and easy to deduce. In this scenario, believed that sites of Public Archives designed so that everyone can effectively perceive, understand, navigate and interact with their pages and their digitized collections. This paper proposes to share part of the results of a thesis in Information Science. The thesis addressed the aspects of access to information for people with disabilities, in Brazilian Public Archives Sites. The methodological procedures included the survey of the national legislation on the terminology for people with disabilities and the analysis of the partial results of the "Data Collection on the Informational Practices of Public Archives" applied in 39 (thirty-nine) Brazilian Public Archives in 2022. Added by a succinct bibliographic review of authors in the area of Human Rights and Archives Sciences, it brings to the reader a reflection on the degree of access to this information for people with disabilities from these institutional sites. Based on the data collected, in this conclusion is by presenting a model proposal based on five strategies that been adopted as principles for promoting access to information for all audiences, including those with disabilities and the elderly.

Open data has attracted the attention of many government agencies worldwide including archive institutions. From an archive perspective, open data provides several benefits such as making public records more accessible, enhancing transparency and accountability, and facilitating access to government data. The aim of this presentation is to report preliminary findings of an ongoing project about open data initiative at The National Center for Archives and Records in Saudi Arabia, using e-archive.

Open data has attracted the attention of many government agencies worldwide including archive institutions. From an archive perspective, open data provides several benefits such as making public records more accessible than ever, enhancing transparency and accountability, encouraging citizens' participation and facilitating and improving access to government data and information. In addition, archivists play a key and important role in developing and managing open data.

The aim of this presentation is to report preliminary findings of an ongoing project about an open data initiative at The National Center for Archives and Records in Saudi Arabia. The national archive has been developing its e-services as a part of its overall national strategy since 2018, and the digital transformation is accelerating at a rapid pace; among these developments is the open data initiative, which is a key component of this strategy.

Information for this research was gathered from a number of sources including several interviews with key stakeholders involved with the open data initiative, the analysis of some project documentation, and the examination of the open data portal.

The findings indicate that there a number of factors that influenced the decision to develop the open data initiative such as the recent developments in the country including Saudi vision 2030, the Freedom of Information Act 2018, wide adoption of open government data initiatives at local, regional and global levels. In addition, the initiative is part of the national open data strategy that aims to build a public data hub that enables transparency, enhances accountability, promotes citizens e-participation, inspires innovation, and facilitates the access, use and reuse of government data and information.

However, adopting such ambitious initiatives is not without many challenges and difficulties. Initial results show that there are a number of challenges associated with releasing open data such as the development of a bilingual open data portal (Arabic and English), privacy issues, data ownership, misuse and misinterpretation of open data, confidently issues, and data related factors including file formats, standardization of metadata, data integration, data visualization, linked open data, and the quality of the data.

The study concludes that open data initiatives support the mission of archives. In this regards, open archives can make public record more accessible, enhance transparency and accountability. Moreover, the role of archivists cannot be over emphasized, as they play an important role in the process of developing and managing open data. Furthermore, in order to overcome challenges associated with releasing open data, collaboration between archivists and those responsible for open data in different governments settings should be established.

We live in a changing world. This paper will explore how the international scientific community is working with archives, especially those of UK Met Office to build historical datasets of weather observations around the world and how these datasets are used for climate reanalysis work. Specific examples will demonstrate how archival data is used to inform our understanding of natural and anthropogenic climate change in the past and may be used to better prepare us for impacts in the future.

Archives contain a vast wealth of knowledge and information including climate data. To understand more about how our global climate is changing climate scientists are increasingly looking for sources of historical weather data which can be used to form new data sets for computer based reanalysis. The more we understand about the climate of our planet in the past the better we can contextualise extreme weather events in the present.

The National Meteorological Archive (NMA) holds a significant collection of UK and Global data from a range of official and unofficial sources including Private Weather Diaries. Valuable information can also be found in a wide range of archive collections including regional archives, archives of gardens and historic houses, and archives of other institutions and societies. Handled correctly any of this data may be of great use in adding to the existing datasets and helping to paint a more detailed picture of weather events in our past and understand how similar events might impact us in the future.

Data from the National Meteorological Archive has been used in data rescue and reanalysis projects around the world. Ship Logs and Lighthouse Logs from are a crucial source of data for the southern hemisphere and by rescuing key information it is possible to understand more about historical storms and sea temperatures. Combining ship logs from different national collections, for example from the UK and from the Netherlands has also further increased the data available and highlighted the impacts of trading routes on data collection. The groundbreaking temperature series created by Ed Hawkins using historic temperature data from around the world presented clear evidence for the rise in average global temperatures in recent years. More recently the Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) computer model, which uses pressure data recovered from archival sources as well as current global datasets, has enabling a much greater understanding of these storms. New work has also been undertaken to model one key storm ‘Storm Ulysses’ in both its own time of 1903 and in the present under modern climate conditions. This work indicates that reanalysis of extreme historical weather events using archival records and cutting edge climate modelling may enable us to better understand and prepare for extreme weather in our changing climate. Climate scientists are always looking for more data, increased data improves modelling. We actively encourage engagement from the global archives community in helping to identify new long running datasets.