Have you ever wanted to recruit hundreds of members of the public to assist with the task of making cultural heritage collections findable online? Or to connect with passionate volunteers who’ll share their discoveries with you?

Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage is a broad term for projects that ask the public to help with tasks that…[Read more]

Community history projects across Britain have collected and created images, indexes and transcriptions of historical documents ranging from newspaper articles and photographs, to wills and biographical records. Based on analysis of community- and institutionally-led participatory history sites, and interviews with family and local historians,…[Read more]

This project explores the potential for casual browser-based games to help improve the quality of museum catalogue records. The project goal was to design and build casual yet compelling games that would have a positive impact on a practical level, helping improve the mass of ‘difficult’ – technical, near-duplicate, poorly catalogued or scantily d…[Read more]

This report is intended as a guide to facilitate the development of the Transgender Media Portal (transgendermediaportal.org). The Transgender Media Portal aims to make audiovisual work by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people more available to artists, activists, festival programmers, researchers, instructors,…[Read more]

A discussion of how digital resources (?) can contribute to research in classical studies. The presentation looks at the application of Voyant text mapping in a critical literary examination of the work of Diodorus Siculus.

The current video presents a brief How to use Stylo, a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) text editor for writing and editing scientific articles in the social sciences and humanities. Stylo is available online for free at this address: https://stylo.huma-num.fr Stylo is designed by the Canada Research Chair on Digital textualities of the…[Read more]

This set of slides presenting the case for and providing an introduction to the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) initiative, a Canadian venture to produce a robust infrastructure for the creation, dissemination, and use of Linked Open Data (LOD) for the humanities. From articulating the need for such an…[Read more]

PowerPoint presentation to accompany Reassembling The Social Organization

Franz Boas’s 1897 report, The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, was a landmark in anthropology for its integrative approach to museum collections, photographs, and sound recordings as well as text. A result of participant observation and extensive collaboration with Indigenous partners—especially George H…[Read more]

Dans sa nouvelle Wearable books (Pidd 2016), Michael Pidd propose un monde académique dystopique où les technologies numériques de publication sont devenues un système de contrôle, de traçage et d’uniformisation de la recherche et des modèles épistémologiques sur lesquels elle est basée. Dans ce monde Pidd imagine des universitaires révolutionn…[Read more]