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- Abstract
This one-day workshop will showcase digital crowdsourcing projects in the Arts and Humanities, and discuss the impact of such initiatives. ‘Impact’ is a broad term, which encompasses issues connected to community, digital curation, public engagement and knowledge exchange. Key questions will include:
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What does impact mean in this environment?
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What types of impacts can be achieved by crowdsourcing initiatives?
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How can crowdsourced resources balance quality control and peer review?
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What are the impacts of devolving key processes away from core teams and institutions to public participants?
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What impacts do crowdsourcing initiatives have on participants and to what extent is it possible to influence this?
The workshop is aimed at:
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Crowdsourcing projects in the arts and humanities
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Academics and students interested in researching crowdsourcing
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Digital humanities scholars interested in the role of crowdsourcing in knowledge exchange and public engagement
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Institutional staff interested in launching crowdsourcing activities
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Representatives of funding and evaluation bodies
Please note that there are up to 80 places available. There is a registration fee to cover lunch and refreshments:
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Early bird registration (before 15th March): £20
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Registration after 15th March: £25
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Students wishing to attend can request a waiver of the registration fee by emailing: events@oii.ox.ac.uk
Please note that registration fees will only be refunded if we are notified of cancellations before Friday 15th March. To notify us of any cancellations, please contact events@oii.ox.ac.uk.
The hashtag to use for tweeting about this event is: #oxcrowd
Programme
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10:00 |
Welcome |
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10:05 |
“An emerging field(?): defining the fundamentals of humanities crowdsourcing” Stuart Dunn, King’s College London |
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10.40 |
“Your Paintings: putting 211,000 paintings in the public domain” “The Your Paintings Tagger: crowdsourcing descriptive metadata for the Your Paintings project” Alice Warley, Public Catalogue Foundation, Your Paintings and Andrew Greg, University of Glasgow, Your Paintings |
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11.15 |
Coffee |
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11:30 |
“Crowdsourcing the past: The Oxford Community Collection Model” Kate Lindsay, Manager for Engagement & Education Enhancement, University of Oxford |
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12:00 |
“Art Maps: crowdsourcing as engagement mechanism” Laura Carletti, University of Nottingham, Tate Art Maps. |
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12:30 |
“TBC” Kimberly Kowal, British Library, Georeferencer. |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
“‘A thousand readers are wanted, and confidently asked for’: public participation as engagement in the arts and humanities” Mia Ridge, Open University. |
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14:30 |
“Crowdsourcing at scale – from Oxyrhynchus to Flanders with the Zooniverse” Chris Lintott, University of Oxford, Zooniverse. |
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15:00 |
“‘If we can crowdsource Bentham, can we crowdsource anything?’ The impacts of Transcribe Bentham and collaborative transcription” Tim Causer, UCL, Transcribe Bentham |
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15:30 |
Coffee |
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15:45 |
“Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities: Roundtable discussion” |
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17:00 |
Close |
This event is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
About the speakers
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Dr Kathryn Eccles
Affiliation: -
Dr Stuart Dunn
Affiliation: King's College, London -
Alice Warley
Affiliation: Your Paintings, Public Catalogue Foundation -
Andrew Greg
Affiliation: University of Glasgow -
Kate Lindsay
Affiliation: University of Oxford -
Dr Tim Causer
Affiliation: UCL -
Kimberly Kowal
Affiliation: British Library -
Dr Laura Carletti
Affiliation: University of Nottigham -
Dr Chris Lintott
Affiliation: University of Oxford, Zooniverse -
Mia Ridge
Affiliation: Open University