Category: Digital Knowledge

The Library of Congress has an initiative called By the People where they ask visitors to “be a virtual volunteer!” and help transcribe and/or review transcriptions of items in their collection. They make the barrier of entry as easy as possible by not requiring volunteers to make an account. For volunteers that want to take…

As Deines (2018) points out in “Six Lessons from Our First Crowdsourcing Project in the Digital Humanities,” there is often a lack of metadata that describes the contents of collections. Art UK seeks to address this by giving registered visitors the opportunity to assign and verify tags for artwork from all over the United Kingdom.…

For my Digital Knowledge Individual Assignment, I chose to contribute a transcription to the National Archives & Records Administration’s (NARA) “Citizen Archivist” program (you can read one of the pages that I transcribed here; I also transcribed several shorter pages within the same document). This program invites volunteer transcribers, metadata taggers, and historical enthusiasts to…

The Citizen Archivist project is an initiative of the National Archives in which members of the public are invited to provide tags and transcriptions of various archival documents and records. The project encourages individuals to interact with cultural heritage and contribute directly to the archival process, while also making the work of the archivists much…

ArtUK brings together over 3,000 public collections online across Britain.  At any one time, only about 20% of the public collections are on display at museums and universities.  ArtUK is a charity focused on art education making over 300,000 art pieces accessible online.  It is one of the largest online collections in the world.  The…

by: Vashti Jenkins Taylor 1. How does this cultural heritage institution solicit participation from the public? What rhetorical strategies is the institution using to garner engagement? What audiences do you think these strategies would be most effective with? Image Above: Dashboard for the Maturity of Baby Sounds categorization. The dashboard shows an audio player to…

Contributor: D. Corchado In 2011, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador created the Galapagos Science Center (GSC) in an effort to advance science and conservation in the Galapagos Islands. Their initiative aims to save the Galapagos Islands by extending a richer and more complete understanding…

The Natural North Carolina Project through the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is a citizen science project that asks the public to submit photos of wildlife, plants and fungi that are spotted around the state. It’s a great way to engage the public and allow them to contribute to a state-wide research project. The…

      I chose to participate in crowdsourcing through the Library of Congress (LOC) “By the People” campaign.  My contribution was to the Clara Barton: “Angel of the Battlefield” campaign transcribing letters, papers, documents, and news reports of her time and activities.  This campaign is accessed via www.crowd.loc.gov.  The website is very detailed and offers information about the campaign, campaign topics, resources,…