A group for any and all who are interested in using online crowdsourcing for research, or researching the practice of crowdsourcing for research in the humanities. Practitioners, participants, enthusiasts and skeptics welcome. This is a group for information, discussion, and sharing resources (projects, toolkits, analysis methods, publications, etc.).
Emily Esten started the topic Announcing Issue 2 of “Startwords”: Scribes in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoCrowdsourcing Friends,
I’m pleased to announce that Issue 2 of Startwords, a research periodical published by the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, is now available. The issue, “Scribes,” includes four pieces that emerged from this spring’s Crowdsourcing and the Humanities conference, co-sponsored by the CDH, the Center for Research…[Read more]
Mia Ridge deposited Draft: Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage: a practical guide to designing and running successful projects in the group
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoHave 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]
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Mia Ridge started the topic OCR-based tasks on Zooniverse? in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 6 months, 4 weeks agoHey all,
The data scientists I’m working with are thinking about how Zooniverse tasks might fit into their NLP (natural language processing) research.
Until now, we’ve been working with images from digitised newspapers for our crowdsourcing tasks with this corpus / research area.
e.g. we run queries on metadata/OCR to find articles that might…[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 9 months, 3 weeks agoSave the dates!
We’re starting planning in earnest for the workshop event that rounds off our project. Meghan has written a ‘save the date’ post that sets out the basics and some possible topics https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/save-the-date-collective-wisdom-workshop-20-22-october-2021/ including:
- Evidencing mental health and other…
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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 1 year, 1 month 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
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month 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]
Julien Raemy started the topic Crowdsourcing and citizen science task design: analogue vs. digital in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoHi everyone,
I’m new to this group (thanks to Mia who suggested it).
My name is Julien Raemy and I just stared a PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Basel.
The PhD is conducted within a multidisciplinary project called PIA…[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 1 year, 3 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]
Ben Brumfield replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoWe 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]
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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 1 year, 4 months 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 1 year, 4 months 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]
Samantha Blickhan replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis question of commonly-seen tasks is one of the hardest ones for me, as a practitioner, to wrap my head around in terms of how to convey information in a useful way. For example, it’s *so* helpful to be able to point to a project using a similar type of data, with a similar goal, and say, “Here’s how this team did it, here’s what their output…[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 2 years agoThinking about it, one of the challenges for people thinking about crowdsourcing ideas for the first time is understanding whether their idea is similar to established patterns, or if it’s novel.
Platforms tend to cater to projects that match common patterns of tasks, though each has variations in how they approach it. Entirely new or novel tasks…[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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years, 1 month 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 2 years, 3 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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