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NITLE ‘Crowdsourcing’ seminar

Posted on May 3, 2013 by mia

Discussion Guide for NITLE Crowdsourcing seminar Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1-2 pm EDT, online via NITLE’s desktop videoconferencing platform Slides (8mb PDF). Discussion Questions Have you ever participated in a crowdsourced project? What did you enjoy about it? Were you … Continue reading →

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Keynote: ‘A Brief History of Open Cultural Data’

Posted on April 13, 2013 by mia

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 … Continue reading →

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Paper: ‘A thousand readers are wanted, and confidently asked for’: public participation as engagement in the arts and humanities

Posted on April 9, 2013 by mia

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 … Continue reading →

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Workshop: Data visualisation as a gateway to programming

Posted on March 16, 2013 by mia

I was invited to run a workshop at THATCamp Feminisms West at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and thought ‘Data visualisations as gateway to programming’ would be a good way to provide a gentle introduction to ‘computational thinking’ by working … Continue reading →

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Conference paper: New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women’s History on Wikipedia

Posted on March 11, 2013 by mia

I’ll be presenting ‘New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women’s History on Wikipedia’ in the ‘Developments in Digital Women’s History’ strand of the Women’s History in the Digital World conference at The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History … Continue reading →

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Paper: Where next for open cultural data in museums?

Posted on March 2, 2013 by mia

My latest article for Museum Identity magazine, Where next for open cultural data in museums?, is now live online and in the current print issue of Museum-iD 13. Site abstract: “Museums have increasingly been joining the global movement for open … Continue reading →

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Keynote: ‘The gift that gives twice: crowdsourcing as productive engagement with cultural heritage’

Posted on February 1, 2013 by mia

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 … Continue reading →

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Resources for ‘Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions’

Posted on January 22, 2013 by mia

A collection of links for further reading for the British Library’s Digital Scholarship course on ‘Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions’. Crowdsourcing projects discussed Games with a purpose ReCAPTCHA Trove Old Weather What’s on the menu FamilySearch DigitalKoot … Continue reading →

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Resources for ‘Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly Research’

Posted on January 20, 2013 by mia

A collection of links for further reading for the British Library’s Digital Scholarship course on ‘Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly Research’. I update this each time I teach the course, so please leave a comment if you know of … Continue reading →

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ACH Election Results Announced

Posted on December 10, 2012 by mia

I am proud to share that I was elected to serve on the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) for the 2013-2016 term, alongside Brian Croxall, Jennifer Guiliano, and Ernesto Priego (2013).

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