Wednesday, April 03, 2019: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Jefferson (3F)
Workshop: DIY Crowdsourcing & Museum Collections: Explore people-powered research with the Zooniverse Project Builder!
- Samantha Blickhan, Zooniverse, USA
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As libraries, museums, and other cultural repositories digitize their collections and place them online, the challenges of transforming these materials into useful and searchable sources of information are becoming increasingly apparent. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore the free, DIY tools currently available on the Zooniverse.org crowdsourcing platform, and learn how a crowdsourcing project works: from data upload to workflow design to exporting results. Participants should arrive for the workshop with a laptop, a basic project idea and a small amount of sample data (for example, ~50-100 images from a collection; an ideal dataset is one for which the same line of questioning can be applied to each image).