RT Journal Article
T1 Communities & Crowds: a toolkit for hybrid volunteering with cultural heritage collections
A1 Geoffrey Belknap
A1 Samantha Blickhan
A1 Lynn Wray
A1 Alex Fitzpatrick
A1 Lincoln Anderson
A1 Lawrence Brooks
A1 Jacob Fox
A1 Paulien ten Hagen
A1 Matt Hick
A1 Adrian Hine
A1 Maureen Rowe
A1 Sandra Rowe
A1 Rebecca Smith
A1 Ruth Quinn
YR 2024
VO Tenth Birthday Issue
IS Autumn 2024
K1 audience engagement
K1 crowdsourcing
K1 digitisation
K1 Museum
K1 museum audience
K1 toolkits
K1 volunteering
AB This toolkit outlines the steps taken by the Communities & Crowds project to give ownership to local volunteers to identify photographs that reflect their interests; to digitise them to museum standards; and to share these collections with a global audience via an online crowdsourcing project. Communities & Crowds is an AHRC-funded collaboration between the NSMM (Bradford, UK), the Adler Planetarium (Chicago, IL), National Museums Scotland (NMS) (Edinburgh, UK), and Oxford University (Oxford, UK). It re-examines the role of the museum volunteer by combining participatory research methods and online crowdsourcing techniques to explore how local communities can collaborate with digital volunteers around the world to increase discoverability of, and access to, the collections that matter to them. The toolkit and accompanying downloadable templates are intended to be useable and reusable for any heritage organisation that wants to work with volunteers to find stories in photographic collections that matter to those audiences.
NO This research and toolkit was funded as part of the AHRC research project (AH/V009508/1) Communities & Crowds: Expanding Volunteer Programmes Across Physical and Digital Spaces for Cultural Institutions.  
NO Transcript from audio recording conducted by Lynn Wray and Maureen Rowe, reflecting on Daily Herald archive image 1983-5236/94105
NO See NCVO’s guidance for more information on copyright law and volunteers.
NO The final publication for this project can be viewed here.
NO For heritage organisations in the UK, documentation standards are outlined in the Spectrum 5.2 requirements for museum accreditation
NO Sound & Vision: Representation of People 1 Report. Science Museum Group Audience Research Team, January 2024 
NO Sound and Vision Project
PB The Science Museum Group
SN 2054-5770
LA eng
DO 10.15180/242209
UL https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/communities-and-crowds/
WT Science Museum Group Journal
OL 30