Scientific and Heritage Crowdsourcing at the Crossroads of Models of Coordination and Cooperation: The Case of Digital Herbaria

摘要

We studied the participation mechanisms developed by the institutions involved in the conservation of herbaria. Besides the facilitated consultation of digitized collections, some of the mechanisms offered the opportunity to participate in the transcription of the information contained in the images from the digitization of the herbaria or propose corrections to data already entered. We combined a typology of mediation schemes and of modes of collective action to apprehend the functional features of these websites. We highlighted the overlapping of functions belonging to different coordination and cooperation models among anonymous organizations and communities, which sometimes come into conflict.