Readings
- Selections from Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski, eds. Letting Go?: Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World, 2011. (selections unavailable due to request from co-editors)
- Fiona Romeo and Lucinda Blaser, “Bringing Citizen Scientists and Historians Together,” Conference Paper, Museums and the Web (2011), http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/papers/bringing_citizen_scientists_and_historians_tog
- Writing History in the Digital Age: Part II, Wisdom of the Crowd, http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/crowdsourcing/
Activities
Morning (9-12)
- Shared Authority Case Studies:
- Contribute to the community sourced project, if appropriate
- Identify the target audience for the project
- Evaluate the project’s perspective on authority and community
- How would you deepen the engagement with this material?
- Citizen Archivist Dashboard, NARA, http://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/
- Direct Me NYC, 1940, NYPL, http://directme.nypl.org/
- Operation War Diary, Zooniverse, http://www.operationwardiary.org/
- Our Marathon, Northeastern University, http://marathon.neu.edu/
Afternoon (1-4)
- Hands-on Session: Plan a shared authority activity
- Project Development Lab and Discussion with Jen Serventi, NEH, Office of Digital Humanities, Program Officer
Homework
Please take a few minutes to complete our mid-week survey.
Sites
- September 11 Digital Archive, http://911digitalarchive.org
- WikiPedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Flickr Commons, http://flickr.com/commons/
- Trove, National Library of Australia, http://trove.nla.gov.au/
- Papers of the War Department, RRCHNM, http://wardepartmentpapers.org
- Scripto, http://scripto.org
- Zooniverse, https://www.zooniverse.org/
- Improve the V&A Collections Search, http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/
- Smithsonian Transcription Desk, https://transcription.si.edu/
Reference
- Jeff Howe, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” Wired (June 2006), http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html
- Roy Rosenzweig, “Can History be Open Sourced? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past,” (June 2008), http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=42
- Sheila A. Brennan and T. Mills Kelly, “Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5” (2009), http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=47
- Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody (2009) and Cognitive Surplus (2011), http://www.shirky.com/
- Trevor Owens’s posts on crowdsourcing, http://www.trevorowens.org/tag/crowdsourcing/
- Project Planning Resources