Bevan, AH;
Pett, D;
Bonacchi, C;
Keinan, A;
Lombraña González, D;
Sparks, RTE;
Wexler, J;
(2014)
Citizen archaeologists. Online collaborative research about the human past.
Human Computation
, 1
(2)
pp. 183-197.
10.15346/hc.v1i2.9.
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Abstract
Archaeology has a long tradition of volunteer involvement but also faces considerable challenges in protecting and understanding a geographically widespread, rapidly dwindling and ever threatened cultural resource. This paper considers a newly launched, multi-application crowdsourcing project called MicroPasts that enables 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.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Citizen archaeologists. Online collaborative research about the human past |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.15346/hc.v1i2.9 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15346/hc.v1i2.9 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2014, Bevan et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. |
Keywords: | Citizen Science, Crowd-sourcing, Crowdsourcing, MicroPasts, Archaeology, Heritage |
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/1430596 |
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