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document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationCrowdsourcing has the potential to help build a more open, connected, and smart cultural heritage with involved consumers and providers: open (the data is open, shared and accessible), connected...
document Distributed Knowledge
Heritage Provider Network awarded checks totaling $100,000 to the two teams leading the $3million Heritage Health Prize competition announced at the CrowdConf in San Francisco, California. The...
document Open Innovation
"This is our first prize challenge to foster innovations in breast cancer research," said Dr. Richard Merkin , President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network. "Hopefully, our...
document Distributed Knowledge, ToolsWe feel this is an interesting addition to the current literature, as it provides a typology of crowdsourcing and studies the potential impact for the cultural heritage domain.
document Crowd Creativity
For the very first time, materials provided by Wikipedians becomes part of a public inventory managed by the Official Cultural Heritage Institution of the Government of Catalonia. It is an...
document Distributed Knowledge
Ushahidi also provides an IOS app that can be deployed in the field, so that an archaeologist who discovers the work of tombaroli could take geo-tagged photographs and submit them with a click to...
document Distributed Knowledge
Crowdsourcing is better at Digital Collections than Displaying Digital Collections
What crowdsourcing does, that most digital collection platforms fail to do, is offers an opportunity for...
document Distributed KnowledgeAs Managing Editor Michelle Rogers explained in her blog post about the coverage: As a group of weekly publications in print, it has been an ongoing challenge to get our audience to realize we’re...
article Distributed KnowledgeIn the spirit of going local, the project intends to adopt the crowdsourcing model, and upload all data collected for anyone to access online. "It will be like Wiki in nature, and up by...
article Distributed KnowledgeThe Transcribe Bushman project of the University of Cape Town promotes the preservation of a rare cultural heritage collection. This is a transcription project specifically aimed at preserving the...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationThe Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive is currently processing their first round of historical material donations, and look forward to sharing them with the world.
In the meantime, do...
site Distributed Knowledge / EducationThe Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive is a restoration of the original 1969 ARPA lab that sent the first Internet message from 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA. It will be open to the public...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe 5 nominated crowdsourcing projects are (in alphabetical order, with the institution that will present the project at DISH2011): 1) Digitalkoot (National Library of Finland), 2) Old Weather...
document Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge
A unique approach and first public Microtask-powered service called Digitalkoot, runs with the collaboration of National Library of Finland. The library is currently scanning and indexing its...
video Distributed KnowledgeThe Danish minister for Culture, Uffe Elbæk, congratulates the largest and oldest crowdsorcing initiative in Danish heritage, and comments on how heritage institutions can form a digital strategy...
document Crowdfunding
Marking its 15th anniversary as a leading online platform for exploring Irish history and heritage worldwide, The Wild Geese is turning to non-conventional sources to fund a complete revamp of...
document Distributed Knowledge
This report provides an update to the Initial State of the Art Monitoring Report (D1.2), that was completed a year ago. Rather than create an extended version of that document, the current work...
article Distributed KnowledgeSocial media showed its political potential during the Arab Spring, allowing “crowdsourcing” and the coordination of large-scale protests. Street activists scheduled demonstrations through mass...