Slides from talk entitled From Crowdsourcing to Knowledge Communities: Creating Meaningful Scholarship Through Digital Collaboration Presented at Museums and the Web 2015, April 9, 2015 (Chicago) and Digital Humanities 2015, July 1, 2015 (Sydney). Accompanying papers: http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/from-crowdsourcing-to-knowledge-communities-creating-meaningful-scholarship-through-digital-collaboration/ http://dh2015.org/abstracts/xml/VOSS_Jon_From_Crowdsourcing_to_Knowledge_Communit/VOSS_Jon_From_Crowdsourcing_to_Knowledge_Communities__C.html

1. From Crowdsourcing to
Knowledge Communities: Creating
Meaningful Scholarship Through
Digital Collaboration
Jon Voss
Strategic Partnerships Director
Historypin
jon.voss@historypin.org
@jonvoss
@historypin
historypin.org

6. Social Good? http://bit.ly/historypin-community

7. Civic Engagement Is Declining

8. Engagement Enhances Happiness

9. We Believe That
Local people
Sharing stories about a
shared place
Build stronger local
connections
Actor
+
Action
=
Impact

10. Year of the Bay
regional, broad topic
Living with the
Railroads
regional, domain specific
500 Novels
broad corpus, specific tasks
Crowdsourcing for Humanities Research
http://humanitiescrowdsourcing.stanford.edu/

11. http://yearofthebay.org

17. http://blog.historypin.org/2013/07/04/crowdsourcing-year-of-the-bay-historymysteries/

20. http://www.historypin.org/project/42-railroads/

23. https://www.historypin.org/en/explore/victorian-london/

27. Take-aways
Crowdsourcing vs. Knowledge Communities
Of the web not on the web (tech + society)
Identifying community partners and demand/interest
Co-designing projects and research
Outputs & Rewards
Longer timeframes!

28. Future Research
Evaluation framework & measurements
Annotation Tools (UI + Demand?)
Data Sharing (Round-tripping)