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Slides to accompany Oct 5 talk at the Carleton University Art Gallery on the HeritageCrowd project (http://heritagecrowd.org); case study is available at http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/crowdsourcing/heritagecrowd-project-graham-massie-feuerherm/
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CROWDSOURCING HISTORY
The HeritageCrowd Project
Guy Massie,Nadine Feuerherm
Shawn GrahamDepartment of History,
Carleton University
And sometimes, given a space, it self-organizes... Myth of the Black Confederate
SoldierBlogosphere vs. Ancestry.com○ (Leslie Madsen-Brooks, “‘I nevertheless
am a historian”: Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers” Writing History in the Digital Age – going live tomorrow!
Who is the Crowd?
Depends on the projectWikipedia:○ 87% Men, 13% women○ 23% with degrees○ 26% are undergrads○ 45% secondary level or less(survey of 58 000 self selected
‘wikipedians’, UNU, Collaborative Creativity Group http://www.wikipediastudy.org/)
Why Digitally Crowdsourced History? An outlet for those who wish to
share historical narratives Collecting an abundance of
perspectives, or the aesthetics of the cracked mirror
Why Digitally Crowdsourced History? An outlet for those who wish to
share historical narratives Collecting an abundance of
perspectives, or the aesthetics of the cracked mirror
Local community consciousness
Our ‘ideal’ data flow
SMS image from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMS_test.jpgTelephone operator, By Deasington, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telephone_girl.JPG
What would we have done differently?
Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, at Place de Rennes side (now Place du 18 Juin 1940), Paris, France, 1895. Studio Lévy and Sons (Studio Lévy & fils)
What would we have done differently? “Retroactive crowdsourcing” “Gamification” of digitally
crowdsourced work
What would we have done differently? “Retroactive crowdsourcing” “Gamification” of digitally
crowdsourced work Procedural Rhetorics of the
Software
Relinquishing Control of the Historical Voice
Source for this photo? It exists in multiple copies online... See http://j.mp/oumey5
Relinquishing Control of the Historical Voice Conventional role of the historian:
constructor of historical narratives
Relinquishing Control of the Historical Voice Conventional role of the historian:
constructor of historical narrativesUses sources to interpret the past, but
interpretation is in the hands of the historian
Relinquishing Control of the Historical Voice Conventional role of the historian:
constructor of historical narrativesUses sources to interpret the past, but
interpretation is in the hands of the historian
Social authority of the historian: institutionally trained, professional credentials
Relinquishing Control of the Historical Voice With the crowdsourcing of history,
we are asking people from the public to define their sense of history and heritage
Relinquishing Control of the Historical Voice With the crowdsourcing of history,
we are asking people from the public to define their sense of history and heritage“Every person their own historian”
Relinquishing Control of the Historical Voice With the crowdsourcing of history,
we are asking people from the public to define their sense of history and heritage“Every person their own historian”The democratization of history?
In a nutshell:
Choose your base platform carefully, thinking through the technological and epistemological implications
Collect what already exists.
Seed your site with this material so you can identify the gaps.
Image: Termininga, Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almond_nut.jpg
Narrow your target when communicating with the public: get them to fill the holes.
Make sure to design for engagement.
Building your crowd is key: put initial resources into publicity.
Have an “elevator pitch”. Make sure that the project can be
described completely in 30 seconds or less.
Build your outreach and social media strategy around getting that pitch in front of as many eyes in your target crowd as possible.
Whither HeritageCrowd?
Platform for outreach & communication
Environment for teaching & training of students (especially in HIST2809)
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