Slides from:
Lecture at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
MA in Digital Humanities 2014/2015
AFF615A: Doing Digital History
Doing Digital History (introduction)
2. What is Digital Humanities?
What sits at the intersection of computational method and the
traditional pursuits of the humanities â Ray Siemens
Um ... anything in the humanities that has a digital aspect â
Alastair Dunning
Using or making digital tools, and methods do humanities
scholarship â Sharon M. Leon
http://whatisdigitalhumanities.com/
16. Your priorities:
reading list, recommended
online resources and
consultations with tutor /
librarian / supervisor
Information (digital) literacy:
finding, assessing, evaluating,
using and referencing
information
Be critical about online
resources.
Digital resources online
Images: @LegoAcademics
28. Crowdsourcing
is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and
especially from an online community, rather than from traditional
employees or suppliers. While this definition from Merriam
Webster is valid, a more specific definition is heavily debated.
Wikipedia entry for âCrowdsourcingâ
⢠- 905 editors
⢠- 1805 revisions
⢠- edits made by the top 10% of editors: 745 (41.3%)
⢠- page viewed 50685 times in the last 30 days
29. I donât think Wikipedia can be described as
âcrowdsourcingâ. The word comes from outsourcing â from
cheap off-shore labour; even cheaper, get the public to do it
for free â and it disrespects and misunderstands what
people are doing.
Jimmy Wales
Wikipediaâs co-founder
2011
30. What is
crowdsourcing?
More than just free labour!
Actively engaging the public
in our collection development
Work we could never resource ourselves
Crowdsourcing at the National Library of Scotland
Presentation by Ines Byrne
National Library of Scotland
31. Carletti, Laura, Gabriella Giannachi, Dominic Price, Derek McAuley, âDigital Humanities and Crowdsourcingâ. MW2012: Museums and the Web 2013. Online
Crowdsourcing types
32. Oral History Network Ireland
http://www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/
Cymru 1900 Wales
http://www.cymru1900wales.org/
What was there
http://www.whatwasthere.com/
DIY History
http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/
Micro-pasts
http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org/
National Library on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/
Citizen Archivist
http://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/
Ancient Lives
http://www.ancientlives.org/
History Pin
https://www.historypin.org/
Transcribe Bentham
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
Trove
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
The War Graves Photographic Project
http://twgpp.org/
Europeana 1914-1918
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/
The Great War Archive
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/
33. Project launched on 27 September 2013
Timespan of the letters:
1 Nov 1915 - 31 Oct 1916
Historical significance in
the âDecade of Centenaries (2012 - 2022)â
34. Project launched on 27 September 2013
Timespan of the letters:
1 Nov 1915 - 31 Oct 1916
Historical significance in
the âDecade of Centenaries (2012 - 2022)â
36. 1591 letters uploaded to the system,
of which 1490 made public to date
458 registered users to date
Letters from 27 private family
collections and 13 institutions