I gave a short paper on 'Digital participation and public engagement' at the London Museums Group's 'Museums and Social Media' at Tate Britain on May 24. A version of my notes is now posted online at Guest post 'Tips for digital participation, engagement and crowdsourcing in museums' for London Museums Group.
Keynote: 'A Brief History of Open Cultural Data'
I was invited to give a talk (which seemed to turn into a plenary then a keynote along the way) for the GLAM-Wiki 2013 conference. I thought it might be useful to put current discussions around opening cultural data for use on Wikipedia and other projects that require content to be licensed for re-use in context (for the museum, library and archive professionals in the audience) and some of the contradictory instructions issued to institutions with cultural, scientific or historical content (for the Wikipedians in the audience, though of course there was a huge overlap between those groups).
I've blogged my talk notes as 'An (even briefer) history of open cultural data' at GLAM-Wiki 2013 at Open Objects or there's a video of my talk.
Paper: 'A thousand readers are wanted, and confidently asked for': public participation as engagement in the arts and humanities
I was invited to give a paper on my research at Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities, convened by Kathryn Eccles and the Oxford Internet Institute.
I've also posted Notes from 'Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities' on Open Objects.
(My title comes from the Oxford English Dictionary's 1879 call for contributors to help them get through their backlog of words that needed sources and definitions. Yes, I do spend a bit too much time thinking about Victorian precursors to modern crowdsourcing.)
Keynote: 'The gift that gives twice: crowdsourcing as productive engagement with cultural heritage'
I was invited to give a keynote at 'The Shape of Things: New and emerging technology-enabled models of participation through VGC' at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. This was the first event for the AHRC-funded iSay: Visitor-Generated Content in Heritage Institutions project.
I wrote up my research for this lecture into an article for Curator Journal, From Tagging to Theorizing: Deepening Engagement with Cultural Heritage through Crowdsourcing. If you have don't have access to the journal through your library, the pre-print is available from the Open University repository here.
My slides are below and I've blogged Notes from 'The Shape of Things: New and emerging technology-enabled models of participation through VGC'. I've also saved an archive of isayevent_tweets_2013_02_01 (CSV).
If you found this post useful, you might be interested in my book, Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage.
Resources for ‘Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions’
A collection of links for further reading for the British Library's Digital Scholarship course on 'Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions'. Last updated June 2016.
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