DIY History is a crowdsourced volunteer project from the University of Iowa’s Digital Library. The goal of DIY History is to make historic artifacts more accessible – both by enhancing catalog records for greater ease in searching and browsing, and by engaging the public to interact with the materials in new ways.

Link: http://diyhistory.lib.uio…[Read more]

Map the Museum is an experimental website that allows users to browse through a selection of objects from Brighton & Hove collections and pin them to a map. The objects are taken from Fine Art, Local History, and Archaeology collections, and include prints, photographs, pieces of ephemera, objects made or sold locally, and items that have been…[Read more]

SciStarter is a globally acclaimed online citizen science hub where more than 3,000 projects from all over the internet have been organized and made searchable.

Link: https://scistarter.org

How would you apply this project’s methodology in a crowdsourcing project in your country?

A research project launched in 2018 by the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick crowdsourced philosophical thinking about current political and social crises.

Link: https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/new_research_project_crowdsources_philosophical_thinking_about_current_affairs1/

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Pin-a-Tale was an online crowd-sourcing initiative that sought to connect our individual experiences of writing and place and pin them to a searchable map. More information is available in the Case Studies area of Unit 3.

Link: https://www.bl.uk/pin-a-tale/pin-a-tale-about.html

How would you apply Pin-a-Tale project’s methodology in a l…[Read more]

In this activity, you are in the teachers’ forum and there is a discussion about teaching strategies of literature. You are tasked with either arguing a.) in favour of implementing a digital humanities literature project in your school or b.) you are sceptical about the using digital humanities for a literature project and you explain w…[Read more]

The Globe at Night programme is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen-scientists to measure their night sky brightness and submit their observations from a computer or smartphone

Link: https://www.globeatnight.org/infographic/2021

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