Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford
This one-day workshop showcased 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 included:
The workshop was aimed at:
Please note that there are up to 80 places available. There is a registration fee to cover lunch and refreshments:
Click on the links to see recordings of the sessions.
| 10:00 | Welcome |
| 10:05 | “An emerging field(?): defining the fundamentals of humanities crowdsourcing” (see right)
Stuart Dunn, King’s College London |
| 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 |
| 11.15 | Coffee |
| 11:30 | “Crowdsourcing the past: The Oxford Community Collection Model”
Kate Lindsay, Manager for Engagement & Education Enhancement, University of Oxford |
| 12:00 | “Art Maps: crowdsourcing as engagement mechanism”
Laura Carletti, University of Nottingham, Tate Art Maps. |
| 12:30 | “TBC”
Kimberly Kowal, British Library, Georeferencer. |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | “‘A thousand readers are wanted, and confidently asked for’: public participation as engagement in the arts and humanities”
Mia Ridge, Open University. |
| 14:30 | “Adventures in the Zooniverse: Working with 818048 Volunteers”
Chris Lintott, University of Oxford, Zooniverse. |
| 15:00 | “‘If we can crowdsource Bentham, can we crowdsource anything?’ The impacts of Transcribe Bentham and collaborative transcription”
Tim Causer, UCL, Transcribe Bentham |
| 15:30 | Coffee |
| 15:45 | “Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities: Roundtable discussion“ |
| 17:00 | Close |
This event is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Kathryn Eccles has research interests in the impact of new technologies on Humanities scholarship, and the re-organisation of cultural heritage and higher education in the digital world.
King’s College London
Your Paintings, Public Catalogue Foundation
University of Glasgow
University of Oxford
University College London
British Library
University of Nottigham
Zooniverse
Open University
