Examples of crowdsourcing projects in digital humanities
| Project | Initiator(s) | Task(s) | Artifact(s) | Intermediary platform | Participants | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anno Tate | Tate Britain archive in London (Archives) | Transcription and classification | Artist's sketchbooks, letters and personal papers in the Tate British archives | Adapted | The general public | Iranowska (2019) |
| Australian Newspaper Digitization | National Library of Australia (Library) | Correction | Australian newspaper | Self-developed | Amateur and those with a general interest in Australian history | Alam and Campbell (2012); Terras (2016) |
| Old Weather | The citizen science group Zooniverse, the UK's national weather service the Met Office, the National Maritime Museum and Naval-History.net(Meteorological Department Museum and Gallery) | Correction and transcription | Ships' logs from voyages to the Arctic | Adapted | The general public | Blaser (2014); Terras (2016) |
| Steve Museum | Many American art museums (Museums) | Classification | Art museum collections | Self-developed | The general public | Chun et al. (2006); Trant (2006) |
| The National Archives Transcription Pilot | National Archives and Records Administration (Archives) | Transcription | Handwritten and typed historical documents (letters to civil war spies, presidential records, voting rights petitions and files on fugitive slave cases) | Self-developed | The general public | Noll (2013) |
| Transcribe Bentham | University College, London (University) | Transcription and contextualization | Bentham's manuscripts | Adapted | Students, researchers and the general public | Causer and Terras (2014b); Iranowska (2019) |
| What's on the Menu? | New York Public Library (Library) | Transcription, classification and co-curation | Historic New York restaurant menu | Self-developed | The general public | Lascarides and Vershbow (2014) |
| 1,001 stories of Denmark | The National Heritage Agency (Kulturarvsstyrelsen) and the Danish Communication Agency Advice | Contextualization | Comments, photos, recommendations and interesting stores about a place | Self-developed | The general public | Madsen (2014) |
| Digital (Cultural Institutions) |
| Project | Initiator(s) | Task(s) | Artifact(s) | Intermediary platform | Participants | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anno Tate | Tate Britain archive in London (Archives) | Transcription and classification | Artist's sketchbooks, letters and personal papers in the Tate British archives | Adapted | The general public | |
| Australian Newspaper Digitization | National Library of Australia (Library) | Correction | Australian newspaper | Self-developed | Amateur and those with a general interest in Australian history | |
| Old Weather | The citizen science group Zooniverse, the UK's national weather service the Met Office, the National Maritime Museum and | Correction and transcription | Ships' logs from voyages to the Arctic | Adapted | The general public | |
| Steve Museum | Many American art museums (Museums) | Classification | Art museum collections | Self-developed | The general public | |
| The National Archives Transcription Pilot | National Archives and Records Administration (Archives) | Transcription | Handwritten and typed historical documents (letters to civil war spies, presidential records, voting rights petitions and files on fugitive slave cases) | Self-developed | The general public | Noll (2013) |
| Transcribe Bentham | University College, London (University) | Transcription and contextualization | Bentham's manuscripts | Adapted | Students, researchers and the general public | |
| What's on the Menu? | New York Public Library (Library) | Transcription, classification and co-curation | Historic New York restaurant menu | Self-developed | The general public | |
| 1,001 stories of Denmark | The National Heritage Agency (Kulturarvsstyrelsen) and the Danish Communication Agency Advice | Contextualization | Comments, photos, recommendations and interesting stores about a place | Self-developed | The general public | |
| Digital (Cultural Institutions) |
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