Comments on: Yay! Crowdsourcing! http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/crowdsourcing/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 09 May 2011 23:57:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Crowdsourcing Notes « THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/crowdsourcing/#comment-96 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:22:24 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=377#comment-96 […] had a great discussion in the crowdsourcing session, with special thanks to Ben Brumfield for sharing his expertise and the Collaborative […]

]]> By: rebeccadavis http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/crowdsourcing/#comment-81 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:48:24 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=377#comment-81 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/

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