MicroPasts
@micropasts
Crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding research into the human past
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http://micropasts.org 17-10-2013 13:26:57
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Very interesting reading Alison Hadfield's piece on digital vs non digital replicas: findings are different from what emerged from our MicroPasts research because of the different way of engaging with the digital objects in the two cases. Great read!bit.ly/31oa90w
We are launching a NEW heritage crowdsourcing project on MicroPasts in collaboration with The Scottish Political Archive! Help us enhancing the important photographic collection of 2014 Referendum tagging what you see in the photos! Chiara Bonacchi Cultural Heritage crowdsourced.micropasts.org/project/SPA201…
Second article from the special issue 'Heritage in a World of Big Data' is out! Great commentary piece by Sarah Ames and Stuart Lewis on 'Disrupting the library' - reflects on contemporary collecting, big data as future heritage and ethics
Check out also Mark Altaweel s blog post discussing paper 1 of the special issue ‘The sale of heritage on eBay: market trends and cultural value’
Chiara Bonacchi Dr Jennifer Wexler this project is very similar to the MicroPasts bronze age index project. Good one for our reference.
Paper 3 of the Special Issue on *Heritage in a World of Big Data* is now out! Terrie Lynn Thompson from University of Stirling Discussing: Data-bodies and data activism: Presenting women in digital heritage research #digital heritage #feminist #CriticalDataStudies 👇👇👇
Looking forward to hearing about everyone's projects. I'm presenting on MicroPasts with Chiara Bonacchi about how our projects stand on the shoulders of our participants.
Chiara Bonacchi and Daniel Pett presenting today on MicroPasts crowdsourcing at this Towards a National Collection workshop run by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
A great revamp! Check it out! New look and feel and new projects on it too! Great job with the redesign Daniel Pett!
Help us to tag our #IndyRef photographic collection on MicroPasts! It's a great way to explore the collection and open it up to others too! stir.ac.uk/4b6 Explore Your Archive StirlingHistHeritPol Stirling SU IS @ Uni of Stirling StirlingUniArchives Chiara Bonacchi Elisa Broccoli
Pleased to see our commentary on the UK Web Archive published by @SAGE_Publishing today! Appreciation for the support & guidance from Chiara Bonacchi journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…
#StirStudents! Volunteer with us and help to tag our #IndyRef photographic collection on MicroPasts! stir.ac.uk/4b6 Explore Your Archive StirlingHistHeritPol Stirling SU Chiara Bonacchi Elisa Broccoli
We are digitising archival material from the last #IndyRef. Please Help us with a RT What Scotland Thinks
Project complete! Thank you lovely MicroPasts people! This was part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Ancient Identities
Thrilled about the great honoraries who are join our #stirheritage group: Hon Professors Daniel Pett and @TorgrimG, Hon Fellows Qian Gao Elisa Broccoli and Marta Krzyzanska Welcome! So much we can do together going forward in #digitalheritage and other areas of Cultural Heritage
Our Chiara Bonacchi will be speaking at this fantastic event organised by Europeana Research on Digital Cultural Heritage. All welcome! 🤩🤩
Have a spare hour? Help us complete this project on MicroPasts - we are nearly there!
Brand new app for our MicroPasts community! Have you lived or have been to Edinburgh, UK, in the past? If so, please help! #deepcities
Another volunteer project has gone live on the wonderful MicroPasts. Help us to keyword tag photos from our #IndyRef archive from the comfort of your own home! stir.ac.uk/71y Elisa Broccoli Chiara Bonacchi StirlingUniArchives StirlingHistHeritPol @StirUniSLS
Feel like helping with research on the #heritage of #IndyRef? we have a New project live on MicroPasts you can participate in!