Slides from: Lecture given with Emma Clarke at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture 2014/2015 EN7073: Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing the digital humanites

1. Karolina Badzmierowska
@karolinabadz
badzmiek@tcd.ie
Emma Clarke
@Clarke__Emma
clarkee8@tcd.ie
Crowdsourcing a DH project
M.Phil in DH – TCD
1 October 2014

2. What
is
crowdsourcing?

3. Wikipedia entry for
“Crowdsourcing”:
● 902 editors
● 1802 revisions
● edits made by the top
10% of editors: 745
(41.3%)
● page viewed 50685
times in the last 30
days

4. ● a monster map of
Britain's trees
● GOAL: to record the
trees near you and to
find out how they
benefit the local
environment
● 48,612 trees
● records from public
records and citizen
foresters
http://www.treezilla.org/

5. Its aim is to engage the public
in the online transcription
of original and unstudied manuscript papers
written by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832),
the great philosopher and reformer.
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
• Benthamometer for
progress update
• Hall of Fame and Top
Contributors

6. collecting all the names
of places and features in
Wales from the Ordnance
Survey’s six-inch to a mile
maps of c. 1900
http://www.cymru1900wales.org/
“(...) there is here a huge
potential to tap into local
knowledge and memory”

7. https://www.zooniverse.org/
The Zooniverse is home to the Internet's
largest, most popular and most successful
citizen science projects

8. 200,000 publicly owned oil
paintings online
Each painting will be tagged
many times by members of
the public, and algorithms
behind the scenes will
calculate which tags are likely
to be the most accurate
http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk/

9. Letters of 1916 project
Project launched on 27 September 2013
Timespan of the letters:
1 Nov 1915 - 31 Oct 1916
Historical significance in
the “Decade of Centenaries (2012 - 2022)”

10. How many people do you
think work on the Letters
1916 project?

13. ● fear of the unknown
● copyright issues
● cost / lack of resources for
digitisation
● planning their own 1916 project

15. How did the Letters of 1916 Project
get from its launch (27 Sept 2013)
to where it is today?

17. Amy Sample Ward
“Who is the crowd?”

19. If projects in this area wish to have
‘impact’, as well as be impacted
upon, they need to reach out and
recognize that the public wish to
be collaborated with.
(Dunn)

22. Put a mechanism
in place for your
contributors to
talk to each other,
as well as to you
(Dunn)

24. Philip Costello retired in
2012, having completed 40
years in the Public Service.
He is married to Catherine
and they have four children
and two grandchildren.
Since his retirement he has
been volunteering at
various festivals in Dublin,
as well as the Letters 1916
Project.
Super-Phil

25. A good crowdsourcing project should build any
necessary data validation into the project (Ridge)

26. Kapin, Allyson, and Amy Sample Ward. Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to
Implement Online Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money, and
Engage Your Community. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

27. Karolina Badzmierowska
@karolinabadz
badzmiek@tcd.ie
Emma Clarke
@Clarke__Emma
clarkee8@tcd.ie