When I posted about Co-Lab in May, I wrote:
Co-Lab participation is declining, with the number of contributions and completion percentages dropping for several projects. Only one project (Winnipeg General Strike of 1919) showed progress, while others stagnated or regressed.
In a time of decreasing resources, why is the Co-Lab Challenges project continuing?
Here’s how the stats have changed in 9 months:
Games of the XXI Olympiad, Montréal 1976, remains 80.8% complete since May.
Treaty 9 photographs from northern Ontario, remains 4.7% complete.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, remains at 85.5 % complete.
Expo 67, increased from 5.1% to 6.8% complete.
Summiting Mount Logan in 1925 is now 95.5% complete, up from 17.0%.
Women in the War, remained 1.4% complete.
Arthur Lismer’s Children’s Art Classes remains <1% complete.
John Freemont Smith, RG10, Volume number: 4079 remains 88.5% complete.
Molly Lamb Bobak increased to 95.6 from 95.1% complete.
Diary of François-Hyacinthe Séguin remains 99% complete.
George Mully: moments in Indigenous communities remains 0% complete.
Correspondence regarding First Nations veterans returning after the First World War remains 98.5% complete.
Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 remains 94.7% complete.
Legendary Train Robber and Prison Escapee Bill Miner remains 99.5% complete.
Japanese-Canadians: Second World War is 22.2% complete, up from 19.4%.
11 of 15 challenges saw no change.
Last May, 4,199 items were identified as Co-Lab-only contributions in the collection. Now there are 3,122. What happened?
What lessons has LAC learned from Co-Lab?