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The OED has been a collaboration between lexicographers and the public since its earliest days, from the appeal issued by the Philological Society in 1859, to the television programme “Balderdash...
In 1879, James Murray, a leading member of the British Philological Society who edited the first edition of the O.E.D.,put out “An Appeal to English Speaking Readers,”asking for volunteers to...
By using crowdfunding method, the technical specialist in film studies at Oxford Brookes University, made £10,000 in two months and his feature-length film became a reality. "Nobody...
The First World War archive is based on an initiative at the University of Oxford where people across Britain were asked to bring family letters, photographs and keepsakes from the War to be...
Melissa Highton (Oxford University Computing Services) examines how Oxford's crowdsourced and community collections of open educational resources are supported and embedded in practice for...
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Arfon Smith (University of Oxford) presents the experience of the Zooniverse team with their citizen science and crowdsourcing efforts and the changing role of the citizen scientist.
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Mark Graham looked at Wikipedia in the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa in the November 2011 versions of the Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, English, French. Interestingly, this doesn't...
This paper reviews the evolution of policies and practices concerning open innovation in China. Based on evidence from firm-level case studies, it analyses various practices of open innovation in...
Scientists at oxford University are today announcing the 'Old Weather" project which uses crowd-sourcing technology, volunteers and British naval ships from the World War 1 era....
Other than politicians and bankers, few types of people come in for as much abuse as amateurs. The word itself is practically an insult: a goal gets fumbled, an actor forgets his lines and what time is it? Amateur hour. Maybe it’s just me, but a guy who says he’s “an amateur” usually has a weird look in his eyes and talks a lot about steam trains.
The debate about the definition of crowdsourcing continues and the conversation inevitably draws to what exactly is and what isn’t crowdsourcing. While it’s interesting and fun to reference historical examples of open collaboration, it can actually confuse the dialogue. Historical examples are useful though in enabling a clear comparison with what we have chosen today to define as crowdsourcing.
The Longitude Prize of 1714, offering £20,000 in an open call to anyone that could come up with a way for merchants and sailors to navigate at sea, won by John Harrison, the son of a carpenter; the Niagara Suspension Bridge prize of 1847 offering a $10 prize to the person who could successfully lay the first line across the Niagara won by a young boy using a kite; the project to compile the first Oxford English Dictionary in the late 1890’s that involved a group of scholars breaking the work into manageable chunks and enlisting the support of the crowd – the examples are numerous! While these examples and many more show that open calls to undefined groups with the offer of a monetary or altruistic award is nothing new, they don’t fit with our definition of crowdsourcing!
The Egypt Exploration Society and Oxford University's Ancient Lives project has launched yesterday and it is hoping to recruit "armchair archaeologists" to look through and...
Ancient Lives is a collaboration between a diverse collection of Oxford Papyrologists and Researchers, The Imaging Papyri Project, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, the Egypt Exploration Society...
Vallerie Wallace and her colleague Tim Causer tells the story of the super-transcribers involved in the project to understand the thousands of manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham.
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Chris Morgan 'Mog' (University of Glamorgan, GEECS) presents on the Communities 2.0 digital inclusion project and the collection of digital stories that community members make.
A presentation given by Dr Stuart Lee and Alun Edwards at the Beyond Collections Conference on 26th May 2011. The speakers present the Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten project (The First...
Ancient Lives' overall approach is different from a lot of the citizen science projects out there, and it plays very much like a puzzle video game. Only a small percentage of the Oxyrhynchus...
These images will be publicly available online, with the aim of using a kind of academic crowdsourcing. He says it's misleading to think that codebreaking is about some lonely genius...
The world's oldest undeciphered writing system is close to being cracked thanks to a new technology and online crowdsourcing, Oxford University researchers have announced. Called...
Social Innovation Sydney will be crowdsourcing ideas for creating new business models for social good and building up our community network of changemakers. This is your chance to get your ideas...
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