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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Crowdsourcing and citizen science task design: analogue vs. digital in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoApologies for the time it’s taken me to get back to this after our book sprint…
To clarify my understanding – you’ll have some digital and some physical photos, and different activities around them – in-person, synchronous and co-located; and online, individual and possibly asynchronous? If so, is one of the main distinctions between the two…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge deposited The contributions of family and local historians to British history online in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCommunity history projects across Britain have collected and created images, indexes and transcriptions of historical documents ranging from newspaper articles and photographs, to wills and biographical records.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]
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Mia Ridge deposited The contributions of family and local historians to British history online in the group
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCommunity history projects across Britain have collected and created images, indexes and transcriptions of historical documents ranging from newspaper articles and photographs, to wills and biographical records.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]
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Mia Ridge deposited Playing with difficult objects: game designs for crowdsourcing museum metadata in the group
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis 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]
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Mia Ridge deposited The contributions of family and local historians to British history online on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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]
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Mia Ridge deposited Playing with difficult objects: game designs for crowdsourcing museum metadata on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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]
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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 4 years, 11 months agoWe have two new calls for participation! Find out why we’re doing these surveys and how the results will be used at https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/we-want-to-hear-from-you/
To participate, follow the links below. Our ‘Case Study’ survey is designed for practitioners, while our ‘Volunteer Voice’ survey is designed for people who have take…[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 agoA question that was close to my heart this month – what advice would you give to someone in the lead up to launching an online project? What might I have forgotten to do or set up?
And what’s different when you’re launching a new phase of a project versus launching an entirely new project?
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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 agoI noticed this question from Nina Janz some time ago, and I’ve (finally) shared it as I think it’s reasonably common in some fields:
‘I am looking for any standardisations or guidelines for transcriptions (online) in e.g. #crowdsourcing projects – I would use ISAD(G) – but it includes more titles, other than full-text transcripts’
My initial…[Read more]
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