TY  -  JOUR
TI  -  Communities & Crowds: a toolkit for hybrid volunteering with cultural heritage collections
  AU -Geoffrey Belknap
AU -Samantha Blickhan
AU -Lynn Wray
AU -Alex Fitzpatrick
AU -Lincoln Anderson
AU -Lawrence Brooks
AU -Jacob Fox
AU -Paulien ten Hagen
AU -Matt Hick
AU -Adrian Hine
AU -Maureen Rowe
AU -Sandra Rowe
AU -Rebecca Smith
AU -Ruth Quinn
PY  -  2024
VL  - 
IS  - Autumn 2024
KW - audience engagement
KW - crowdsourcing
KW - digitisation
KW - Museum
KW - museum audience
KW - toolkits
KW - 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.

N1 - 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.  
N1 - Transcript from audio recording conducted by Lynn Wray and Maureen Rowe, reflecting on Daily Herald archive image 1983-5236/94105
N1 - See NCVO’s guidance for more information on copyright law and volunteers.
N1 - The final publication for this project can be viewed here.
N1 - For heritage organisations in the UK, documentation standards are outlined in the Spectrum 5.2 requirements for museum accreditation
N1 - Sound & Vision: Representation of People 1 Report. Science Museum Group Audience Research Team, January 2024 
N1 - Sound and Vision Project
PB - The Science Museum Group
 
SN -  2054-5770
LA -  eng
DO -  10.15180/242209
UR -  https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/communities-and-crowds/
T2 -  Science Museum Group Journal