The Wellcome Library, in considering a project to digitise and transcribe recipe manuscripts using crowdsourcing technologies, commissioned this report from Ben Brumfield and Mia Ridge in Summer 2015. The report addresses issues specific to this project, and to the Wellcome Library’s digital infrastructure.

An increasing number of crowdsourcing projects are making claims about ‘citizen history’ – but are they really helping people become historians, or are they overstating their contribution? Can citizen history projects succeed without communities of experts and peers to nurture sparks of historical curiosity and support novice historians in learn…[Read more]

Our goals are to develop and improve applications that support the recording and analysis of the Çatalhöyük Projects archaeological research and data; and to improve access for the project team and the public to Çatalhöyük data.

The work of migrating stand-along Access databases to a central form, migrating non-Access interfaces to the proje…[Read more]

Work on further developing the IT Systems both in terms of on-site computing and database development work continued during the build up to the season and for a short period on site.

During the close season since 2003 documents were prepared to put to IBM, the Project’s IT Sponsor, containing fairly detailed reports on the problems faced with…[Read more]