Social Network of the Novel
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This area is for the Social Network of the Novel project. This project is an experiment in citizen science. The idea is to create an application that allows participants to read a passage and tag the characters, settings, and interactions taking place. These would then update a social network graph dynamically.
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Participants
- Andrew Piper
- Geoffrey Rockwell
- Aiden In
- Todd Suomela
- J??r??mie Pelletier-Gagnon
Specifications
Designs
Design Examples for Crowdsourcing in the Humanities
Most of the projects in the humanities are focused on transcription.
- Smithsonian Transcription Center https://transcription.si.edu/
- DIY History and U of Iowa http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/
- Transcribe Bentham at UCL http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
- Multiple projects (e.g. What's on the menu?) at New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/collections/labs
- Martha Berry Digital Archive https://mbda.berry.edu/
- Old Weather at Zooniverse http://www.oldweather.org/
- Ancient Lives at Zooniverse http://www.ancientlives.org/
Annotation Based Examples
Here are some examples of projects that are using annotation based mechanics.
- Genius http://genius.com/
- Wikipedia has a long list of web annotation projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation
Crowdsourcing Software Projects
The Prism project is particularly interesting because it focuses on tagging using a highlighter affordance, instead of transcription which is the most common use case for most of these tools.
Project Name | Link | Purpose | Language | License | Dependencies |
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Bossa | http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BossaIntro | General | PHP | ||
PyBossa | https://github.com/PyBossa/pybossa | General | Python | GPL | |
Scripto | http://scripto.org/ | Transcription | Omeka,Wordpress,Drupal | ||
FromThePage | http://beta.fromthepage.com/ | Transcription | Ruby | ||
Transcribable | https://github.com/propublica/transcribable | Transcription | MIT | DocumentCloud | |
Prism | http://prism.scholarslab.org/ | Tagging-Classification | Ruby | Apache 2.0 | |
Crowd-Ed | https://github.com/gsbodine/crowd-ed | Editing | Omeka |
References
- Crowd Consortium website - a project to bring together people in libraries and archives working on crowdsourcing http://www.crowdconsortium.org/
- List of references particularly good for digital humanities sources. http://www.crowdconsortium.org/resources/
- Many more case studies and a video of a webconference on crowdsourcing http://www.crowdconsortium.org/webinar-crowdsourcing-101-fundamentals-and-case-studies/