Skip to content Skip to footer

DAVY NOTEBOOKS PROJECT

United Kingdom’s Docs DAVY NOTEBOOKS PROJECT

The crowdsource project in ZOONIVERSE PLATFORM asks for help to transcribe the manuscript notebooks of Sir Humphry Davy – one of the most significant and famous figures in the scientific and literary culture of early nineteenth-century Britain, Europe, and America. In his notebooks, Davy didn’t see the arts and the sciences as ‘two cultures’.

In these manuscripts, we see poetry and chemical enquiry combined: both offered, for Davy, important ways of exploring the mysteries of the world around him. The site’s content is relevant to the Humanities area and the crowdsourcers act as researchers: they add comments, descriptions and all necessary metadata about each digitized object.

Type of practice/case Research team from Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, University College London, University of Manchester. It is a crowdsourcing project tool in Zooniverse.
Year of implementation Ongoing
Language English
Target General public and scholars

 

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/humphrydavy/davy-notebooks-project/about/research

Discussion (0)

There are no comments for this doc yet.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Default
  • Dark