{"id":9143,"date":"2022-11-28T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T09:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/citizen-science-as-public-history\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T09:23:47","slug":"citizen-science-as-public-history","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/citizen-science-as-public-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Science as Public History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>Keynote speech by Dr Mia Ridge, the British Library\u2019s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections.<\/p><p>How does public history intersect with citizen science on crowdsourcing platforms like Zooniverse? This talk will use examples drawn from the Living with Machines project, a collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute and British Library with partner universities, to consider this question. Living with Machines is developing digital history and data science methods to explore vast digitised corpora of historical collections from the long 19th\u00a0century. Crowdsourcing was built into the project from the very beginning, both as a form of public engagement and a method for data collection. Participants comments and survey results provide insights into their experiences reading and annotating historical newspaper articles.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"biography\"\n    >\nBiography<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Dr Mia Ridge<\/strong> is the British Library\u2019s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections. As part of the Library\u2019s Digital Scholarship team, she helps enable innovative research based on the British Library\u2019s digital collections, offering support, training and guidance on applying computational research methods to historical collections. Current projects involve crowdsourcing the transcription of historical playbills, and experimenting with machine learning-based methods with library collections. In January 2020 she was awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for &lsquo;Collective Wisdom&rsquo;, a project that will capture the state of the art in crowdsourcing and digital participation in cultural heritage in 2020-21.<\/p><p>She is a Co-Investigator on the Living with Machines project, where she leads public engagement with digital scholarship and heritage collections through crowdsourcing. Living with Machines is a major inter-disciplinary historical and data science research project analysing digitised sources at scale to provide new insights into mechanisation in the industrial revolution.<\/p><p>She is a member of several project advisory boards in the fields of digital humanities and digital cultural heritage, and has undertaken peer review for a range of journals and conference programmes. Mia has supervised undergraduate and postgraduate research projects applying digital scholarship methods to the Library\u2019s collections.<\/p><p>Mia has published, taught and presented widely on her key areas of interest including user experience design and human-computer interaction, open cultural data, digital history, and audience engagement and participation in the cultural heritage sector. Her edited volume, \u2018Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage\u2019 (Ashgate) was published in October 2014.<\/p><p>Her PhD in digital humanities (Department of History, Open University) was titled \u2018Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public participation and scholarly practices in historical research\u2019.<\/p><p><strong>This keynote speech is part of the online symposium &lsquo;When publics co-produce history in museums: skills, methodologies and impact of participation&rsquo;.<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynote speech by Dr Mia Ridge, the British Library\u2019s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9144,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2022-12-06 18:00:00","event_end_date":"2022-12-06 19:15:00","event_speaker_name":"Dr Mia Ridge","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Online","event_street":"","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"","event_city":"","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[312],"events-type":[],"organisation":[221,226],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Citizen Science as Public History? 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