Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Expanding Perspectives to Improve Access to Visual Archives through Multimodal Image Enrichment

  Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Myrsini Samaroudi (2026) — ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

  This paper addresses a pervasive challenge in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector: large-scale visual collections that have been digitised but remain undiscoverable because they lack descriptive metadata. The authors, from th…

  • cultural heritage
  • metadata enrichment
  • AI image classification
  • FAIR principles
  • information discovery
  • visual archives
  • multimodal AI
  • accessibility
  • museum accessibility
  • cognitive load
  • IIIF
  • GLAM

• Motivating Multi-Generational Crowd Workers in Social-Purpose Work

  Masatomo Kobayashi, Shoma Arita, Toshinari Itoko, Shin Saito, Hironobu Takagi (2015) — CSCW '15: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

  This CSCW 2015 paper from IBM Research Tokyo and the University of Tokyo investigates how to sustain a volunteer community in 'social-purpose crowdsourcing' — crowd work with altruistic goals such as supporting libraries or producing materials for pe…

  • crowdsourcing
  • social-purpose crowdsourcing
  • motivation
  • gamification
  • GLAM
  • accessibility
  • assistive services
  • senior workforce
  • volunteer community
  • print disability
  • proofreading