Communities & Crowds: a toolkit for hybrid volunteering with cultural heritage collections
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Communities_and_Crowds_-_SMGJ.pdf
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Journal article
Date published
December 19, 2024
Abstract
This toolkit outlines the steps taken by the Communities & Crowds project to give ownership to local volunteers to identify photographs that reflect their interests; to digitise them to museum standards; and to share these collections with a global audience via an online crowdsourcing project. Communities & Crowds is an AHRC-funded collaboration between the NSMM (Bradford, UK), the Adler Planetarium (Chicago, IL), National Museums Scotland (NMS) (Edinburgh, UK), and Oxford University (Oxford, UK). It re-examines the role of the museum volunteer by combining participatory research methods and online crowdsourcing techniques to explore how local communities can collaborate with digital volunteers around the world to increase discoverability of, and access to, the collections that matter to them. The toolkit and accompanying downloadable templates are intended to be useable and reusable for any heritage organisation that wants to work with volunteers to find stories in photographic collections that matter to those audiences.
Journal title
Science Museum Group Journal
Issue
22
Publisher
The Science Museum
Place of publication
London
ISSN
2054-5770
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