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Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage, citizen science – September 2016
More new projects and project updates I’ve noticed over September 2016. Gillian Lattimore @Irl_HeritageDig has posted some of her dissertation research on Crowdsourcing Motivations in a GLAM Context: A...
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Keynote video ‘Reaching out: museums, crowdsourcing and participatory heritage’
In September I was invited to give a keynote at the Museum Theme Days 2016 in Helsinki. I spoke on ‘Reaching out: museums, crowdsourcing and participatory heritage. In lieu of my notes or slides, the...
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Trying computational data generation and entity extraction
I’ve developed this exercise on computational data generation and entity extraction for various information/data visualisation workshops I’ve been teaching lately. As these methods have become more...
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From piles of material to patchwork: How do we embed the production of usable...
These notes were prepared for a panel discussion at the ‘Always Already Computational: Collections as Data‘ (#AACdata) workshop, held in Santa Barbara in March 2017. While my latest thinking on the gap...
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Do people want access to digitised collections?
Someone asked me recently if there’s any evidence that people really want access to digitised collections, so I popped onto twitter and asked, ‘Does anyone have a good example of a digitised image on...
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My opening remarks for MCG’s Museums+Tech 2017
My notes introducing the theme of the Museums Computer Group’s 2017 conference and a call to action for people working in cultural heritage technology below. A divided world 2016 was the year that deep...
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Cross-post: Seeking researchers to work on an ambitious data science and...
I rarely post here at the moment, in part because I post on the work blog. Here’s a cross-post to help spread the word about some exciting opportunities currently available: Seeking researchers to work...
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Updates from Digital Scholarship at the British Library
I’ve been posting on the work blog far more frequently than I have here. Launching and running In the Spotlight, crowdsourcing the transcription of the British Library’s historic playbills collection,...
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Notes from ‘AI, Society & the Media: How can we Flourish in the Age of AI’
Before we start: in the spirit of the mid-2000s, I thought I’d have a go at blogging about events again. I’ve realised I miss the way that blogging and reading other people’s posts from events made me...
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‘The Past, Present and Future of Digital Scholarship with Newspaper Collections’
It’s not easy to find the abstracts for presentations within panels on the Digital Humanities 2019 (DH2019) site, so I’ve shared mine here. The panel was designed to bring together range of...
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‘In search of the sweet spot: infrastructure at the intersection of cultural...
It’s not easy to find the abstracts for presentations within panels on the Digital Humanities 2019 (DH2019) site, so I’ve shared mine here. In search of the sweet spot: infrastructure at the...
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Notes from Digital Humanities 2019 (DH2019 Utrecht)
My rough notes from the Digital Humanities 2019 conference in Utrecht. All the usual warnings about partial attention / tendency for distraction apply. My comments are usually in brackets. I found the...
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Museums + AI, New York workshop notes
I’ve just spent Monday and Tuesday in New York for a workshop on ‘Museums + AI’. Funded by the AHRC and led by Oonagh Murphy and Elena Villaespesa, this was the second workshop in the year-long...
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Festival of Maintenance talk: Apps, microsites and collections online:...
I came to Liverpool for the ‘Festival of Maintenance‘, a celebration of maintainers. I’m blogging my talk notes so that I’m not just preaching to the converted in the room. As they say: ‘Maintenance...
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Stuck at home? View cultural heritage collections online
With people self-isolating to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents and educators (as well as people looking for an art or history fix) may be looking to replace in-person trips to...
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Useful distractions: help cultural heritage and scientific projects from home
Today I came across the term ‘terror-scrolling’, a good phrase to describe the act of glancing from one COVID-19 update to another. While you can check out galleries, libraries, archives and museums...
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What big topics in Digital Humanities should a reading group discuss in 2021?
This is a thrown-together post to capture responses to a question I asked on twitter last week. The Digital Scholarship Reading Group I run at the British Library will spend the first meeting of 2021...
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About ‘a practical guide to crowdsourcing in cultural heritage’
Some time ago I wrote a chapter on ‘Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage: a practical guide to designing and running successful projects‘ for the Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in...
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Introducing… The Collective Wisdom Handbook
I'm delighted to share my latest publication, a collaboration with 15 co-authors written in March and April 2021. It's the major output of my Collective Wisdom project, an AHRC-funded project I lead...
View ArticleTalk notes for #AIUK on the British Library and crowdsourcing
I had a strict five minute slot for my talk in the panel on 'Reimagining the past with AI' at Turing's AI UK event today, so wrote out my notes and thought I might as well share them… The panel blurb...
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