Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bevan, Andrew
• Daniel, Pett
• Chiara, Bonacchi
• Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
• Lombraña González, Daniel
• Sparks, Rachael
• Wexler, Jennifer
• Wilkin, Neil

Titel

Citizen archaeologists. Online collaborative research about the human past

Ist Teil von

• Human Computation, 2014-12, Vol.1 (2)

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Archaeology has a long tradition of volunteer involvement but also faces considerable challenges in protecting and understanding a geographically widespread, rapidly dwindling  and every-threatened cultural resource. This paper considers a newly launched, multi-application crowd-sourcing project called MicroPasts, whose focus is on enabling both community-led and massive online contributions to high quality research in archaeology, history and heritage. We reflect on preliminary results from this initiative with a focus on the technical challenges, quality control issues and contributors motivations.