An increasing number of crowdsourcing projects are making claims about ‘citizen history’ – but are they really helping people become historians, or are they overstating their contribution? Can citizen history projects succeed without communities of experts and peers to nurture sparks of historical curiosity and support novice historians in learning the skills of the discipline? Through a series of case studies this paper offers a critical examination of claims around citizen history
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This issue of Public History Review discusses aspects of the distinctive role of public historians t...
Historical data pose a variety of problems to those who seek statistically based understandings of t...
The generation of communal knowledge is not a new phenomenon. In the late nineteenth century, the Ox...
Digital history, among other things, offers the possibility for people to collaborate and work toget...
Crowdsourcing – the act of outsourcing tasks to an undefined, large community through an open call f...
Appendix A from the PhD thesis, 'Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public particip...
Community history projects across Britain have collected and created images, indexes and transcripti...
Digital History is different from digital public history (DPH) and this essay describes the central ...
Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for ...
In this chapter, we define big data in history in three ways: (1) big data implies the use of an amo...
This research explores the interaction between internal heritage personnel and the public over socia...
Digital History is different from digital public history (DPH) and this essaydescribes the central r...
I have a good deal of interest in how members of the public who are not academically trained histori...
Crowdsourcing, or “obtaining information or services by soliciting input from a large number of peop...
The aim of this study is to show how Wikipedia establishes a public and digital space, where users p...
This issue of Public History Review discusses aspects of the distinctive role of public historians t...
Historical data pose a variety of problems to those who seek statistically based understandings of t...
The generation of communal knowledge is not a new phenomenon. In the late nineteenth century, the Ox...
Digital history, among other things, offers the possibility for people to collaborate and work toget...
Crowdsourcing – the act of outsourcing tasks to an undefined, large community through an open call f...
Appendix A from the PhD thesis, 'Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public particip...
Community history projects across Britain have collected and created images, indexes and transcripti...
Digital History is different from digital public history (DPH) and this essay describes the central ...
Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for ...
In this chapter, we define big data in history in three ways: (1) big data implies the use of an amo...
This research explores the interaction between internal heritage personnel and the public over socia...
Digital History is different from digital public history (DPH) and this essaydescribes the central r...
I have a good deal of interest in how members of the public who are not academically trained histori...
Crowdsourcing, or “obtaining information or services by soliciting input from a large number of peop...
The aim of this study is to show how Wikipedia establishes a public and digital space, where users p...
This issue of Public History Review discusses aspects of the distinctive role of public historians t...
Historical data pose a variety of problems to those who seek statistically based understandings of t...