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Crowdsourcing, Undergraduates, and Digital Humanities Projects « Rebecca Frost Davis
Crowdsourcing could be a silver bullet for integrating digital humanities methods into the undergraduate curriculum. Why?
“Crowd” by flickr user James Cridland
Crowdsourcing means getting the general public to do tasks. Jeff Howe explains the phenomenon in “
The Rise of Crowdsourcing” (
Wired Magazine, June 2006) by analogy with outsourcing. This method of labor is growing for
scholarly and cultural heritage projects, and that’s where it intersects with the undergraduate curriculum.
Collaborative manuscript transcription projects, like
Transcribe Bentham,
have received quite a bit of the attention, but there are a variety of
opportunities out there for motivated students to engage in the process
of digitizing, preserving, and studying collective resources and data.
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