Q: How many digital humanists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Yay! Crowdsourcing! (Melissa Terras via Bethany Nowviskie)
Several THATCampers have added comments to my session proposal mentioning their interest in a session on crowdsourcing. I’d like to promote that conversation to its own session idea.
What kinds of things could a crowdsourcing session cover? Some options include a wide-ranging, unstructured discussion, a brain-storming session on how to integrate crowdsourcing into specific proposals, or perhaps a review and brief demo of successful crowdsourcing projects. We might end up with a mix, as I’ve attended some very successful sessions that had heterogeneous formats.
What are your ideas?
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#1 by Rebecca Davis on April 13, 2011 - 2:48 pm
I’m interested in practical advice on implementation, so a combination of concrete examples followed by brainstorming about how to implement it in a specific project would be useful. I’m also interested in different levels of crowd-sourcing, e.g., completely open, open to academics, open to students, etc. I don’t have a specific project in mind, so I hope someone else has one they want to brainstorm around.
I do know of some projects that have used student contributions. For example, In the Fall of 2008, at Wheaton College Kirk Anderson had his students engage in a collaborative project to translate the famous 1751 Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts, edited by Diderot and d’Alembert. The translation project, coordinated by the University of Michigan, allows students (and others) to translate the Encyclopédie into English. Details are here: wheatoncollege.edu/technology/academic/projects/anderson-diderot/