The MicroPasts end of first phase funding conference will be held at the Royal Geographical Society on the 31st March 2015. We look forward to welcoming you and tickets can be purchased online or via contacting us directly. The conference programme has now been finalised and features some very interesting speakers as shown below. Lunch… Continue reading Crowd-sourcing and Crowd-funding our Human Past
Tag: Crowdsourcing
Crowd-sourcing
What do we mean by crowd-sourcing? Crowd-sourcing is a relatively new digital method for collecting information, services or funds from a large group of people, in small chunks, over the internet. This practice emerged less than a decade ago in the commercial sector, where companies had been exploring ways of out-sourcing labour to potentially interested… Continue reading Crowd-sourcing
3D Modelling of the Arreton Down Hoard
We are in the process of adding a new photo-masking application to the MicroPasts site. This is going to be a bit of a ‘pop-up shop’ as it will only include one Bronze Age British hoard, although it is one of considerable importance. A hoard is an archaeological terms for two or more objects, normally… Continue reading 3D Modelling of the Arreton Down Hoard
Preparing the British Museum Bronze Age index for transcription
Since late 2013, the MicroPasts team has been preparing the British Museum‘s (BM) Bronze Age Index to be the first offering on our crowd-sourcing platform. This corpus consists of around 30,000 (roughly A4 sized) cards (holding information going back to as early as 1913). The majority of these are double sided and generally have text on… Continue reading Preparing the British Museum Bronze Age index for transcription
MicroPasts Latest Tech Update
So what has been new with MicroPasts? Well, quite a lot. We have successfully launched our crowd-sourcing platform last week, and lots of people are now transcribing object cards and using the photo-masking application to delineate the outline of Bronze Age tools. From a technical perspective, we needed to take care of two main issues… Continue reading MicroPasts Latest Tech Update
MicroPasts at the Citizen CyberScience Summit
A fun conference, hackfest, etc. has been running for the last three days at UCL, called the Citizen CyberScience Summit. It’s been a great chance for us to track what the largest fauna in this brave new world of crowd-sourcing (i.e. mass online data creation) are up to, such as Zooniverse, Mozilla Science Lab and Crowdcrafting,… Continue reading MicroPasts at the Citizen CyberScience Summit