Category Archives: Crowdsourcing

Posts about crowdsourcing projects and methods.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon?

Possible working session/workshop: If anyone is interested, we could take part in a Wikipedia edit-a-thon like at THATCamp Feminisms West and South: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Feminists_Engage_Wikipedia SESSION NOTES

Categories: Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Libraries, Session Proposals | Comments Off on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon?

Crowdfunding Projects

I could help facilitate a session on crowdfunding for projects in the humanities–this month I’ve been running a Kickstarter campaign for my oral history project on African American AIDS activism. The link is here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/346908961/african-american-aids-activism-oral-history-projec I would like to be able … Continue reading

Categories: Crowdsourcing, Funding, Project Management, Session Proposals, Social Media | 1 Comment

Modeling Activist Networks

Lately I’ve become interested in the idea of building a platform for crowdsourcing information about activist affiliations that could be used to generate an open access database that would a) be available for research and b) also power web-based visualizations. … Continue reading

Categories: Crowdsourcing, Data Mining, Mapping, Research Methods, Session Proposals, Visualization | 5 Comments