Hi all,
You may have seen Chiara's message elsewhere, but as the list has recently been discussing the benefits of the crowd, this conference we're organising at the RGS might interest you.
Dan
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bonacchi, Chiara
Sent: 26 February 2015 09:30
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Subject: [MCG] MicroPasts Conference - Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding our Human Past
Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting
We are delighted to announce that we are organising a conference to present the results achieved so far by the MicroPasts project and discuss them with other researchers who have been involved in crowdsourcing and crowdfunding across different arts and humanities fields. Speakers will include members of the MicroPasts team*, Stuart Dunn (King's College London), Meghan Ferriter (Smithsonian Institution Transcription Centre), Daniel Lombraña González (Crowdcrafting and Pybossa), Helen Miles (Aberystwyth University), Andrew Wilson and Katharina Moeller (Bangor University).
The conference will be held on 31 March 2015, at the Royal Geographic Society, in London. If you would like to attend, please register here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1332714<http://micropasts.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6101bbd4a2bdc44bdc8a72e6c&id=9142d1f8e7&e=37b9494f0f> .
MicroPasts (micropasts.org) is a collaboration between the UCL Institute of Archaeology and the British Museum, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (2013-2015). The project has leveraged web-based technologies to foster collaborations between researchers based in higher education and heritage institutions and members of the public to study the human past. Together, we have been creating new open archaeological data via crowdsourcing (crowdsourced.micropasts.org), discussing their value and micro-financing community archaeology and community history projects (crowdfunded.micropasts.org).
Thank you!
Chiara Bonacchi
On behalf of the MicroPasts team
*Andrew Bevan, Chiara Bonacchi, Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert and Rachael Sparks (UCL Institute of Archaeology); Daniel Pett, Jennifer Wexler and Neil Wilkin (British Museum); Hugh Fiske and Lisa Cardy (MicroPasts collaborators).
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