'What do you wish you'd known about building a project on Zooniverse?'

Got lessons learnt or tips to share? I've posted on the Zooniverse forum https://www.zooniverse.org/talk/18/3010068 and can copy back any suggestions from here too

#crowdsourcing #CitizenScience #CitizenHistory #OnlineVolunteering

Really enjoyed 'Creating user profiles based on citizen scientists' engagement patterns' presented by
Coen Van Galen and written with Thunnis van Oort, Montserrat Prats López, Ganzevoort Wessel, Rick Mourits. Loved their thoughtful attention to the language used to describe profiles of volunteer behaviour

It's reminded me that I've shared 'Summary results from a survey of contributors to Living with Machines Zooniverse crowdsourcing projects' that includes questions on volunteers using (or not) the project forum https://bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/datasets/cb1ce859-a35d-46bd-9362-02c005fb66eb

#DH2023 #CitizenHistory #CitizenHumanities

I'm super-excited to launch a White Paper by me, @sam and @meghaninmotion at #DH2023 today:

'Recommendations, Challenges and Opportunities for the Future of Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage: a White Paper' https://doi.org/10.21428/a5d7554f.2a84f94b

In some ways it's an open letter to funders and organisational leaders about how they can support sustainable development and innovation in the field; with calls for better evaluation; skills and working with AI / machine learning etc.

Have thoughts, examples to share? You can comment on the doc!

More background at https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/updates/

#crowdsourcing #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScience #CitizenHistory

I quite like 'Participatory Humanities' as a riff of Participatory Sciences and Public Humanities.

And the distinction between the name of the field and what you call projects to invite participation and/or funding is very useful

What do other #crowdsourcing #CitizenHistory #PublicHistory #volunteering #CommunityEngagement folk think?

Planning a weekend in front of the telly?

If you have a tablet, laptop, or even a phone you can help us reach our target of completing our last @the_zooniverse tasks for @LivingwMachines in the next 10 days!

Just go to https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/bldigital/living-with-machines

Every article helps! Please share!

#BritishHistory #DigitalHistory #volunteering #LocalHistory #CitizenHistory #CitizenScience

Because were asked recently, I've shared a link to the References section of our Collective Wisdom handbook, and to the Zotero library we created while writing it: https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/references-for-our-collective-wisdom-handbook/

It's full of #crowdsourcing #OnlineVolunteering #CitizenScience #CitizenHistory goodness!

CC @sam @meghaninmotion

New blog post and a request for help - I'm looking for examples of national portals / infrastructure / support for citizen science / crowdsourcing projects

https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2023/01/national-approaches-to-crowdsourcing-citizen-science/

So far I have France and Slovenia - does your country have one that I haven't found yet?

#CitizenScience #CitizenHistory #crowdsourcing #OnlineVolunteering

I was once called an “interstate amateur art historian” in the press. My partner then gave me this T-shirt. I don’t think of myself as an historian, but I do admit to being interstate!

I think of myself more as an analyst in an historical sandpit. Also an “undollared scholar”.

I just finished reading “Rising Tensions in the New Age of the Everyman (and -woman) Historian: Why I’m Reluctant to Claim the Title Historian”, a chapter by Paul Daley in “The Australian History Industry” (2022).

Daley: “Labels, ultimately matter little. It’s what you bring to the table that counts. And there are plenty of seats.“

Borrowed from Libraries ACT.
#HistoryAU #histodons #CitizenHistory #ArtHistoryAU

@Scivil I'd set up a form / list for folk a while ago...

Do you post about GLAM, cultural heritage or Digital Humanities crowdsourcing / citizen science / citizen history on mastodon? Looking to connect with others?

Add yourself here! https://t.co/Af2oTfOjb9

#CitizenScience #CitizenHistory #crowdsourcing #DigitalVolunteers

I'm slightly envious of the apparent coordinate approach to citizen science / citizen history / crowdsourcing in France, with their 'network of actors committed to participatory science in the fields of culture' and index of projects https://www.participarc.net/articles

#crowdsourcing #CitizenHistory #CitizenScience

Handwriting recognition technology enhances the Transcribathon platform | Europeana Pro

https://pro.europeana.eu/post/handwriting-recognition-technology-enhances-the-transcribathon-platform

#HTR #crowdsourcing #CitizenHistory #transcription #MachineLearning

New blog post for @LivingWithMachines on 'Working with the Zooniverse's Caesar system for crowdsourcing workflows' https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/working-with-zooniverses-caesar-system-for-crowdsourcing-pipelines/

Caesar is super-powerful for processing Zooniverse results, but it's a bit hard to get into. We hope this post helps.

#crowdsourcing #CitizenScience #CitizenHistory #Zooniverse #data

Do you post about GLAM, cultural heritage or Digital Humanities crowdsourcing / citizen science / citizen history on mastodon? Looking to connect with others? Add yourself here!

GLAM / DH crowdsourcing projects and people on Mastodon form https://forms.gle/LaC557tXWzhriW889

And the list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1phT792K3WqoHEGrlu6R2AVzqMH69t2gV5kvGkJ59UJk/htmlview

Please boost for reach!

#CitizenScience #CitizenHistory #crowdsourcing #DigitalParticipation #OnlineVolunteering

I'm speaking at the Colloque de clôture du projet Testaments de Poilus today

https://archivnat.hypotheses.org/2507

https://archivnat-hypotheses-org.translate.goog/2507?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Florence is tweeting some of it live https://twitter.com/FloClavaud

I've been doing my best to follow the presentations in French by copying and pasting live transcriptions into Google Translate. It's not perfect but I'm blown away by the strategic, coordinated approach from French national and regional archives to including digital public participation and volunteering in their work to make collections accessible and discoverable

#crowdsourcing #CitizenHistory #CitizenScience

I don't think I've seen one already and I miss the network of GLAM and DH folk in crowdsourcing / citizen science / citizen history from twitter... so I've done that 'add your name to a list of cool folk' thing:

GLAM / DH crowdsourcing projects and people on Mastodon https://forms.gle/LaC557tXWzhriW889

Please boost for reach!

#CitizenScience #CitizenHistory #crowdsourcing #DigitalParticipation #OnlineVolunteering