Overview: This project will look at how social media can be used to promote, educate, and recruit people into and to the digital humanities. For this example, we will be discussing my current semester project: this is a project on online exhibit curation by adding historical maps of the state of Louisiana to an interactive…
Category: Open Source
Crowdsourcing Digital Humanities
Overview: This posting has three main sections contain within it: the first relates to the tasks that members of the public can do in a crowdsourced project. This section will have two subsections, transcribing and correction. The second section will talk about how to attract contributors to the project, and the last section will talk…
Digital Humanities on Wikipedia: How to Understand and Use Open-Source Content
Overview of Posting: This posting will be centered around the discussion of Wikipedia and its elements as a crowdsourcing tool. Specifically, we will be dissecting when the article was crated, how it was created, and the questions one ought to be asking when using or examining a Wikipedia article. For the purposes of this project…