In recent years, important research on crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage sector has been published, dealing with topics such as the quantity of contributions made by volunteers, the motivations of those who participate in such projects, the design and establishment of crowdsourcing initiatives, and their public engagement value. This article…[Read more]

The polyphonic music of William Byrd (c. 1543–1623) poses significant challenges to analysts of early music. The category of ‘imitative’ polyphony, which suggests a mode of analysis that seeks to identify successive identical (or at least, very similar) entries of a clearly-defined subject, is ill-fitting. Byrd’s polyphony is varied and discurs…[Read more]

This workshop (session 362 at the 2018 convention) served as an introduction to the nonprofit scholarly network Humanities Commons and its open-access repository, CORE. Attendees learned how to gain more readers while increasing the impact of their work, make interdisciplinary connections, build class blogs and collaborative Web sites, find and…[Read more]