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Session 5. Digital Cultural Heritage and Public Engagement

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Date: Thursday, November 1, 2018, 16h00 (UK time)

Session coordinator: Elisa Bonacini (University of South Florida), Emma Bridges (University of London), Humphrey Southall (Portsmouth)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/UrYKFXpY8Pc

Slides:

Outline

  • What do we mean by public engagement?
  • Crowdsourcing as a form of engagement
  • Wikipedia in relation to engagement/crowdsourcing and democratising knowledge. Why experts, students, and academics should get involved
  • Some problems with representation on Wikipedia
  • Case study: #WCCWiki
  • Case study: GB1900
  • Case study: #iziTravel

Required reading

Further reading

Exercise

Following the guidelines in the WCC page (see Further reading), create a new wikipedia entry or modify an existing one. Please, bear in mind Wikipedia criteria of relevance, original content, and conflict of interest.

Clone this wiki locally