from the amateur-archaeologists-historians-welcome dept.
A new site is attempting to put the enthusiasm and knowledge of amateur archaeologists and historians to work on current archaeological projects, with the help and guidance of professional academics.
MicroPasts, a joint project of University College London, the British Museum, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is a new hybrid site combining citizen science and crowdfunding under one umbrella.
“MicroPasts is a web platform that brings together full-time academic researchers, volunteer archaeological and historical societies and other interested members of the public to collaborate on new kinds of research about archaeology, history and heritage,” according to the site’s coordinators, including Chiara Bonacchi, Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Andrew Bevan, and Daniel Pett. “In particular, we want to improve how people traditionally distinguished as ‘academics,' ‘professionals,’ and ‘volunteers’ cooperate with one another (as well as with other people out there who as yet have no more than a passing interest).”
MicroPasts - Conducting, designing and funding research into our human past. http://micropasts.org
Portable Antiquities Scheme website: http://finds.org.uk
How does this work? - https://crowdfunded.micropasts.org/how-it-works
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @02:27PM
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday January 24 2015, @09:47PM
Another crowd sourced drudgery sharing platform.
Its amazing how many of these there are, and how utterly unrewarding they all seem to be. I admit to spending way more time on Tomnod than I could possibly justify.
Is this where humanity ends up when all the paying jobs are filled by robots? Are we all going to b harnessed to the internet doing questionable "research", or is this task going to be overtaken by robots too?
Hate to sound so negative, but drawing the boarders on images of artifacts seems like a job for a 3d laser scanner.
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(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday January 24 2015, @09:56PM
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:29AM
Maybe just the wiki page would do as well?
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