Category Archives: Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing links

wardepartmentpapers.org diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ www.pepysdiary.com/ www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/ menus.nypl.org/ www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/tag_game/start.php www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/freeze_tag/start.php swem.wm.edu/news/fights-rights/transcription-project www.medici.org/

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Session Idea [Talk?]: Digital Archives & Humanities Research

I would like to propose a session that could involve a series of interrelated topics of discussion including copyright, open access to scholarly materials, and digitization of texts that evade most people’s regular access. I am thinking, first, of two … Continue reading

Categories: Archives, Copyright, Crowdsourcing, Open Access | 2 Comments

Join the Crowd: Hands-On Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing [Play]

This is a companion “play” session to the “talk” on crowdsourcing in the digital humanities. In this session we would visit various sites and contribute by reviewing menus, tagging photos, transcribing letters, etc. We could share our thoughts informally during … Continue reading

Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Libraries, Museums, Session Proposals, session-play | 1 Comment

Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities [Talk]

Crowdsourcing is becoming more and more common in the digital humanities. Here is a sampling of projects which currently include crowdsourcing features: wardepartmentpapers.org diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ www.pepysdiary.com/ www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/ menus.nypl.org/ www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/tag_game/start.php www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/freeze_tag/start.php swem.wm.edu/news/fights-rights/transcription-project www.medici.org/ I would be interested in a discussion … Continue reading

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Session Idea: [Talk/Make]: 50 Ways to be a FOSSer

Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) is distributed without charge and with the underlying source code, so that anyone can fix defects, update documentation, add enhancements, or otherwise modify the software and share the changes with others. Thus FOSS is … Continue reading

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