Dear all,

 

You are warmly invited to the following event:

 

Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities

 

Tuesday 9 April 2013, 10.00-17.00

 

Location: Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford

 

Registration: You can register here. There is a registration fee of £20 to cover lunch and refreshments.

 

About the workshop: This one-day workshop will showcase digital crowdsourcing projects in the Arts and Humanities, and discuss the impact of such initiatives. 'Impact' is a broad term, which encompasses issues connected to community, digital curation, public engagement and knowledge exchange. Key questions will include:

• What does impact mean in this environment?
• What types of impacts can be achieved by crowdsourcing initiatives?
• How can crowdsourced resources balance quality control and peer review?
• What are the impacts of devolving key processes away from core teams and institutions to public participants?
• What impacts do crowdsourcing initiatives have on participants and to what extent is it possible to influence this?

Speakers: Dr Laura Carletti (Tate Art Maps, University of Nottigham), Dr Tim Causer (Transcribe Bentham, UCL), Dr Stuart Dunn (King's College, London), Dr Kathryn Eccles (OII, Convenor), Andrew Greg (Your Paintings, Public Catalogue Foundation), Kimberly Kowal (Georeferencer, British Library), Kate Lindsay (University of Oxford), Dr Chris Lintott (Zooniverse, University of Oxford), Mia Ridge (Open University), Alice Warley (Your Paintings, Public Catalogue Foundation).

 

Full details available here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=573

 

Please share with any interested colleagues.