Bonacchi, C;
Bevan, A;
Pett, D;
Keinan-Schoonbaert, A;
(2015)
Crowd- and Community-fuelled Archaeological Research. Early Results from the MicroPasts Project.
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Proceedings of the Conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
(pp. pp. 279-288).
Archaeopress Publishing: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
The MicroPasts project is a novel experiment in the use of crowd-based methodologies to enable participatory archaeological research. Building on a long tradition of offline community archaeology in the UK, this initiative aims to integrate crowd-sourcing, crowd-funding and forum-based discussion to encourage groups of academics and volunteers to collaborate on the web. This paper will introduce MicroPasts, its aims, methods and initial results, with a particular emphasis on project evaluation. The evaluative work conducted over the first few months of the project already demonstrates the potential for crowd-sourced archaeological 3D modelling, especially amongst younger audiences, next to more traditional kinds of crowd-sourcing such as transcription. It has also allowed a comparative assessment of different methods for sustaining contributor participation through time and a discussion of their implications for the sustainability of the MicroPasts project and (potentially) other archaeological crowd-sourcing endeavours.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Crowd- and Community-fuelled Archaeological Research. Early Results from the MicroPasts Project |
| Event: | 42nd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology |
| Location: | Paris, France |
| Dates: | 22- 25 April 2014 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781784911010. |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
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| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Crowd-sourcing, crowd-funding, Public Archaeology, online communities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073053 |
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