Category: Digital Knowledge

Author: Allison Kuhnell Over the last couple decades, LAM institutions have been soliciting the publics’ help through crowdsourcing. Some projects are limited-run exhibits which require public submissions, or new digital collections that enlist volunteers for transcriptions. ArtUK is the “online home for every public art collection”, and therefore places user involvement front and center. The…

Linnea Eberhart Considering how many articles extol the virtues and popularity of crowdsourcing cultural heritage, it was surprisingly difficult to find an active project to contribute to. Many of the projects cited as examples in these same articles were concluded even before the articles were published and the sites have since been archived. For example,…

By: Kendall Millman Crowdsourcing Project Budburst is a crowdsourcing mobile application that was created by the Chicago Botanic Garden. The goal of Budburst is to, “bring together researchers, educators, and community scientists to help answer important questions around the effects of climate change on plants and animals—and how we can mitigate those effects” (Budburst, 2021).…

This assignment was the perfect excuse to do something I’ve meant to do for a long time: Begin transcribing documents for the National Archives. The Citizen Archivist program allows interested members of the public to help make digital documents searchable by transcribing their contents. My personal work experience lies in university and public library assistantship,…

I had a hard time deciding what to research and participate in, but I chose The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Sharktivity App. Yes, a Great White Shark tracker App! My husband is in the Coast Guard and we were transferred to Cape Cod, MA this past summer. I thought about participating in one of the…

I decided to participate in the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center, a crowdsourced initiative tasked with transcribing various letters, memos, and documents housed within the Smithsonian’s historical collection. The Smithsonian Transcription Center has a wide variety of projects for users to choose from such as the Archives of American Gardens and the National Postal Museum with general…

In 2018, the Library of Congress began a crowdsourcing campaign titled “By the People” to commemorate the 155th anniversary of the Gettysberg Address. This project involves volunteers transcribing, reviewing, and tagging digitized pages from the LOC collection. Participating in the project is as easy as visiting this Get Started page and following the step by…

Over my Thanksgiving Break, I decided to check out the many projects available on Zooniverse and try to help out with some of them. While I took part in two different transcription projects, the one most related to a museum was Voyages in Time, which is part of the Tools of Knowledge project put together…

https://artuk.org/discover/curations/violet-moods For this assignment I chose to curate a collection of works through ART UK’s crowdsourcing initiative. Art UK shows 300,000 artworks, consisting of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs from collections all across the UK. Anyone can create an account and curate a collection of whatever they chose. This gives the public freedom to explore…