The Process Model and Mechanism of Value Co-Creation for Open Data Competitions in Digital Humanities
Open and shared data play crucial roles in building data ecosystems.Open data competition in digital humani-ties can facilitate the transformation of cultural digitization achievements and promote widespread accessibility.An explor-atory case study approach from the perspective of service ecosystems was adopted for this study,and data were obtained from four editions of the Shanghai Library Open Data Competition to analyze the process and underlying mechanisms of value co-creation among competition actors.This research identified the emerging values—historical,economic,experien-tial,social,cultural,and societal—generated from open data competitions in digital humanities.The co-creation process model encompasses value consensus,co-generation,co-integration,and co-dissemination.An iterative transformation be-tween implicit value propositions and explicit product values forms a continuous and dynamic spiral of value co-creation.The value output of the competition demonstrates a trend of sustained growth as the ecosystem continued to expand.This study supplements phenomenological research on value co-creation processes and mechanisms from the perspective of ser-vice ecosystems and provides recommendations for open innovation information practices in the digital humanities.
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