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May 23, 2014December 26, 2023

CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship: 'Bridging collections with a participatory Commons: a pilot with World War One archives'

I've been awarded a CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin for a project called 'Bridging collections with a participatory Commons: a pilot with World War One archives'. Here's Trinity's page about my Fellowship, which runs until mid-December. I've decided to be brave and share my thoughts and actions throughout the process, so I thought I'd start as I mean to go on and post my proposal (1500 words, below). CENDARI is a 'research infrastructure project aimed at integrating digital archives for the medieval and World War One eras' which 'aims to leverage innovative technologies to provide historians with the tools by which to contextualise, customise and share their research' (source) so this research fellowship very neatly complements my PhD research.

You can contact me by leaving a comment below, or via my contact page. If you'd like to follow my progress, you can sign up for (very infrequent) updates at MailChimp: http://eepurl.com/VUXEL or keep an eye out for posts tagged 'CENDARI Fellowship' on my blog, Open Objects.

Updates so far:

my first update was 'Defining the scope: week one as a CENDARI Fellow' (September 26);
my second was 'Linking lived experiences of WWI through battalions?' and the related post 'Private Albert Henry Bailey, service number 13/970a' (October 10).
I've also posted 'Linking lived experiences of the First World War': possible goals and a bunch of technical questions' (October 15) and the related 'In which I am awed by the generosity of others, and have some worthy goals' (October 17)
'Moving forward: modelling and indexing WWI battalions' (October 31)
I gave a keynote at New Zealand's National Digital Forum conference on 'Collaborative collections through a participatory commons'; the video gives a lot of background to the project
'Three ways you can help with 'In their own words: collecting experiences of the First World War' (and a CENDARI project update)' (December 4) summarised a few weeks' work and decisions
I gave a lecture at Trinity College Dublin on ‘A pilot with public participation in historical research: linking lived experiences of the First World War’
I set up a wiki to link personal accounts to specific military units: http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne – this is where most of my work happened in the last month or so of the project

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April 1, 2014February 5, 2015

Keynote 'Enriching cultural heritage collections through a Participatory Commons' at Sharing is Caring

Photo of glider plane against blue sky — Image: Library of Congress

I was invited to Copenhagen to talk about my research on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage at the 3rd international Sharing is Caring seminar on April 1. I've posted my notes on Open Objects: Enriching cultural heritage collections through a Participatory Commons platform: a provocation about collaborating with users.

Much of this comes from my PhD research and my previous work in museums, and I'm grateful to everyone who's commented in person or on twitter so far, particularly as it helps me understand the best ways to explain the Participatory Commons and the research underlying it for different audiences.

February 6, 2014February 5, 2015

VALA 2014 Keynote: Open Objects: 'Bringing maker culture to cultural organisations'

In February 2014 I was invited to Melbourne to give a keynote on 'GLAM making' at VALA2014 (VALA – Libraries, Technology and the Future). I've shared my slides and a storify of tweets from my session at Open Objects: 'Bringing maker culture to cultural organisations' at VALA 2014.

January 17, 2014January 9, 2021

Guest post: 'Digital myth' for Museums Association site

I was asked to comment on the recent report, Digital Culture: How arts and cultural organisations in England use technology for the Museums Association website. My post, Digital myth: Museums need to explode the myth they are technologically backward is live on their site now.

December 31, 2013December 13, 2024

2013: an overview

A seriously incomplete retrospective of what I got up to in 2013… For PhD updates, check my PhD.

Highlights of the second half of 2013 included presenting at Speaking in Code at UVA’s Scholars’ Lab, organising the MCG’s Museums on the Web 2013 conference at Tate Modern with the Museums Computer Group, collaborating on 'Let’s Get Real’ with Culture24, the publication of two peer-reviewed articles – From Tagging to Theorizing: Deepening Engagement with Cultural Heritage through Crowdsourcing for Curator Journal and Creating Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives through Design with Don Lafreniere and Scott Nesbit for the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, based on our work at the Summer 2012 NEH Advanced Institute on Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities – and last but absolutely not least, creating Serendip-o-matic with 12 other wonderful digital scholars at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media’s One Week | One Tool institute.)

In November 2013 I presented at Sustainable History: Ensuring today’s digital history survives and at the Herrenhausen Digital Humanities conference.

In July 2013 I chaired a session on Digital Transformations at the Open Culture 2013 conference in London on July 2, gave an invited lightning talk at the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School 2013, ran a half-day workshop on Crowdsourcing at the Digital Humanities 2013 conference in Nebraska, and had an amazing time making what turned out to be Serendip-o-matic at One Week, One Tool in Virginia (my posts on the process).

In May 2013 I gave an online seminar on crowdsourcing (with a focus on how it might be used in teaching undergraduates wider skills) for the NITLE Shared Academics series. 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, and was in Belfast for the Museums Computer Group’s Spring meeting, 'Engaging Visitors Through Play' on May 30 and then Venice for a quick keynote (with Helen Weinstein) for the We Curate kick-off seminar at the start of June. I also gave another full-day workshop on Crowdsourcing at the British Library.

In April 2013 I gave a paper on my PhD research at Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities, and a keynote on 'A Brief History of Open Cultural Data’ at GLAM-WIKI 2013 and did another workshop on 'Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly Research' for the British Library’s Digital Scholarship Training Programme.

In March 2013 I was in the US for THATCamp Feminisms to do a workshop on Data visualisation as a gateway to programming and gave a paper on 'New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women’s History on Wikipedia' at 'Women’s History in the Digital World' at Bryn Mawr. My talk notes are posted on my blog as 'New challenges in digital history: sharing women’s history on Wikipedia – my draft talk notes’.

In February 2013 I gave a keynote on 'Crowd-sourcing as participation’ at iSay: Visitor-Generated Content in Heritage Institutions in Leicester and ran a workshop on 'Data visualisation for humanities researchers’ with Dr. Elton Barker for the CHASE 'Going Digital' doctoral training programme.

In January 2013 I taught all-day workshops on 'Data Visualisation for Analysis in Scholarly Research’ and 'Crowdsourcing in Libraries, Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions’ for the British Library’s Digital Scholarship Training Programme.