We try to address the first question in our monthly webinars, talking about selecting materials, finding volunteers, creating task instructions, and keeping people motivated.

A rough recording (the plumber interrupts partway through) of our December webinar is recorded at https://youtu.be/xdy64yZbPHs?t=469 and the first 22 minutes from the…[Read more]

A 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?

I 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]