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.
NITLE 'Crowdsourcing' seminar
Discussion Guide for NITLE Crowdsourcing seminar
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1-2 pm EDT, online via NITLE’s desktop videoconferencing platform
If you found this post useful, you might be interested in my book, Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage.
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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in the audience) and some of the contradictory instructions issued to institutions with cultural, scientific or historical content (for the Wikipedians in the audience, though of course there was a huge overlap between those groups).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.)
Workshop: Data visualisation as a gateway to programming
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 through the effects different data structures have on potential visualisations in ManyEyes, the online visualisation tool. I also prepared some material on basic concepts in programming and put together a page of 'Inspiring women through history' mapped across time and space that contained heavily commented code that suggested various things to try to get a sense of how code (in this case, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) works. My slides are below, you can play with content prepared for ManyEyes, or 'view source' at the 'inspiring women' link above, save the file to your hard drive and have a play.