Introduction to Zooniverse and Crowdsourcing Support for Academic and Research Projects

Join Dr. Samantha Blickhan for an introduction to online crowdsourcing for Digital Humanities and GLAMs. This one-hour session will include an overview of the Zooniverse Project Builder, with a specific focus on Digital Humanities tools and infrastructure (including new and experimental tools, such as OCR correction), as well as examples of past DH projects and a discussion of the specific challenges and opportunities they face. If attendees are interested in exploring Zooniverse before the session, they can explore the following: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects (current projects list), help.zooniverse.org (particularly the Transcription section), and The Collective Wisdom Handbook: perspectives on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage (note it is not required to look at these beforehand, but may help familiarize attendees with the tools and concepts in advance).

Dr. Samantha Blickhan is Co-Director and Digital Humanities Lead for the Zooniverse.org crowdsourcing platform. In her role, she guides the strategic vision for Zooniverse Humanities efforts, manages development of new tools and resources, consults with teams in building and running projects, and produces original research about crowdsourcing, digital humanities, sustainable development, ethics in public participatory projects, and user experience design. Her work has been supported by funding from the IMLS, NEH, NSF, ACLS, AHRC, and Kavli Foundation. She is co-I of the Collective Wisdom Project, which produced The Collective Wisdom Handbook, an authoritative book on the ‘state of the art’ in cultural heritage crowdsourcing, in 2021.

This is an ONLINE session.