Digitalkoot, a project of the National Library of Finland and Microtask, needed volunteers to fix mistakes in the index of old Finnish newspapers. This was done by playing games, with the expectation that participation will greatly increase the accuracy of text-based searches of the newspaper…[Περισσότερα]

Link: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/laac-lscp/maturity-of-baby-sounds

How would you apply Maturity of sound’s methodology in a crowdsourcing project in your country?

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…[Περισσότερα]

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…[Περισσότερα]

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/

How would you apply this project…[Περισσότερα]

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…[Περισσότερα]

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…[Περισσότερα]

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

Would you consider GLOBE AT…[Περισσότερα]