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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoCommon platforms include:
- The Zooniverse Project Builder
- FromThePage
- Scripto + Omeka
- Pybossa
This is only a starting point and doesn’t begin to address the strengths and affordances of each platform, or consider the other systems you’ll need around the platform to manage data going in and out.
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe following is a bit of a brain dump of things I tend to say in conversations about crowdsourcing projects, based on my academic research and practical experience. I should really just dig out my teaching slides as they’re designed to anticipate common questions, but in the spirit of ‘the perfect being the enemy of the good’ I’m going to start…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThinking back over previous conversations and unpicking some of the assumptions people bring to them, I’ve kick-started with some questions I’ve heard a few times. I’d love to know which ones resonate, and more importantly, what questions you’d add:
- How do I manage data quality?
- Is the overhead of picking and figuring out a platform worth it?…
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Mia Ridge started the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoWith much of the world being asked to stay in and prevent the spread of the coronavirus and many people unable to do their usual activities, there’s a surge of interest in crowdsourcing from folk in museums, libraries, archives, galleries, academics and others.
This is the moment many of us already working in crowdsourcing have dreamed of, but it…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Collective wisdom: 'From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation' in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoObviously this has all been postponed – we had a backup date in October but at this stage it’s too difficult to make any definite plans.
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Mia Ridge started the topic Collective wisdom: 'From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation' in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCall for book sprint participants, April 2020, ‘From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation: the state of the art in collaboration, access, and inclusion for cultural heritage institutions’.
I’m excited to announce that we – Mia Ridge (British Library), Meghan Ferriter (Library of Congress) and Sam Blickhan (Zooniverse) – have been…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge deposited Breathing life into digital collections at the British Library in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHow are research libraries preparing to meet the needs of 21st century researchers? For the past decade, the British Library’s Digital Scholarship team has worked to ensure that the Library’s collections, systems, policies and processes meet the emerging needs of anyone who wants to conduct innovative research with the Library’s digital colle…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge deposited Breathing life into digital collections at the British Library on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
How are research libraries preparing to meet the needs of 21st century researchers? For the past decade, the British Library’s Digital Scholarship team has worked to ensure that the Library’s collections, systems, policies and processes meet the emerging needs of anyone who wants to conduct innovative research with the Library’s digital colle…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge deposited Wellcome Library Transcribing Recipes Project: Final Report in the group
History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe 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.
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Mia Ridge deposited Wellcome Library Transcribing Recipes Project: Final Report in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe 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.
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Mia Ridge deposited Wellcome Library Transcribing Recipes Project: Final Report on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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.
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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]
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Mia Ridge deposited Çatalhöyük 2005 Archive Report Database and IT Team on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
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]
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Mia Ridge deposited Çatalhöyük 2004 Archive Report Database and IT on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
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]
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Nanna Bonde Thylstrup changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
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Nanna Bonde Thylstrup's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
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Mia Ridge deposited From libraries as patchwork to datasets as assemblages? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoA position paper for the IMLS-funded National Forum, ‘Always Already Computational – Collections as Data’ (https://collectionsasdata.github.io/)
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Mia Ridge deposited From libraries as patchwork to datasets as assemblages? in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoA position paper for the IMLS-funded National Forum, ‘Always Already Computational – Collections as Data’ (https://collectionsasdata.github.io/)
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Mia Ridge deposited From libraries as patchwork to datasets as assemblages? on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months ago
A position paper for the IMLS-funded National Forum, ‘Always Already Computational – Collections as Data’ (https://collectionsasdata.github.io/)
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Mia Ridge deposited The Tony Dyson Archive Project in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoReport of a pilot study investigating the creation of a digital archive of medieval property transactions along the City waterfront
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