From Crowdsourcing to Knowledge Communities: Creating Meaningful Scholarship Through Digital Collaboration Jon VossStrategic Partnerships Director

Historypinjon.voss@historypin.org

@jonvoss@historypinhistorypin.org

Social Good? http://bit.ly/historypin-community

Civic Engagement Is Declining

Engagement Enhances Happiness

We Believe That

Local people

Sharing stories about a shared place

Build stronger local connections

Actor+

Action=

Impact

Year of the Bay

regional, broad topic

Living with the Railroads

regional, domain specific

500 Novels

broad corpus, specific tasks

Crowdsourcing for Humanities Research

http://humanitiescrowdsourcing.stanford.edu/

http://yearofthebay.org

http://blog.historypin.org/2013/07/04/crowdsourcing-year-of-the-bay-historymysteries/

http://www.historypin.org/project/42-railroads/

https://www.historypin.org/en/explore/victorian-london/

Take-aways

Crowdsourcing vs. Knowledge Communities

Of the web not on the web (tech + society)

Identifying community partners and demand/interest

Co-designing projects and research

Outputs & Rewards

Longer timeframes!

Future Research

Evaluation framework & measurements

Annotation Tools (UI + Demand?)

Data Sharing (Round-tripping)