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Bunte VW-Käfer beim Autocrash unterm Funkturm, Bierhumpen des Ostberliner Rundfunks, Infobroschüren für Besucher aus Westberlin – das sind nur einige Inhalte, die Nutzer der Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) an Collection Days digitalisieren lassen und die gemeinsam mit Inhalten von Archiven, Bibliotheken und Museen unter einer freien Lizenz auf der Plattform der »Berliner Großstadtgeschichten« veröffentlicht sind. Vorbilder für diese Aktivitäten sind die europaweiten Kampagnen von »Europeana 1914-1918« und »Europeana 1989« sowie Oral-History-Projekte aus den USA, in denen Nutzer mehr als nur Konsumenten sind und digitale Inhalte selbst erschaffen.
In 2009 the library of the ETH Zurich acquired
the Photographic Archive of Swissair, an airline
that ceased operations in 2002. The archive
consists of about 220,000 photographs
taken in the period between 1910 and 2001.
Many of the pictures had only rudimentary
captions; often the location and year were
missing, as well as the identification of the
type of aircraft, building, event, activities, or
individual S. It was hoped that this missing information
could be supplied by former employees
of the airlines by means of crowd sourcing.
To start with, individual photographs
were inventoried in order to record the collection
in its entirety. Afterwards it was decided
to digitalize only a portion of the collection.
All of the oldest photographs, blackand-
white medium-sized negatives from the
»propaganda department« from the 1930s,
were digitalized; but in the case of the later
photographs, the black-and-white small-camera
negatives after about 1970, a selection
had to be made.
Starting in December 2009, 200 photographs
were uploaded online every Thursday
for Swissair retirees to view. The available
metadata (title, photographer, date) were also
shown. Former employees could add notes in
an additional, unformatted information field.
This crowdsourcing project was completed
at the end of 2013, at which time 40,000
photographs were published on »e-pics«, the
ETH‘s Image Archive. Compared with other
open and anonymous crowdsourcing projects,
the resulting knowledge transfer of this
relatively small group of experts, who shared
a strong interest in preserving and sharing
the history of »their« airline, was remarkably
large.