Citizen archaeologists. Online collaborative research about the human past

Andrew Bevan; Daniel Pett; Chiara Bonacchi; Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert; Daniel Lombraña González; Rachel Sparks; Jennifer Wexler; Neil Wilkin

doi:10.15346/hc.v1i2.9

Citizen archaeologists. Online collaborative research about the human past

Andrew Bevan^*, Daniel Pett, Chiara Bonacchi, Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Daniel Lombraña González, Rachel Sparks, Jennifer Wexler, Neil Wilkin

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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 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	183-197
Journal	Human Computation
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15346/hc.v1i2.9
Publication status	Published - 30 Dec 2014

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crowd-sourcing
crowd-funding
transcription
computer vision

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