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Micropasts: Conducting, designing and funding research into our human past [First posted in AWOL 23 October 2013, updated 12 July 2017]
Micropasts: Conducting, designing and funding research into our human past
Micropasts is a web platform that brings together full-time archaeologists, archaeological societies and other interested members of the public to collaborate on new kinds of research about our human history. It is a place where archaeological enthusiasts not only can create high-quality research data together, but also can collaboratively design and fund entirely new research projects. In particular, we want to encourage better kinds of archaeology by improving the ways that people traditionally distinguished as 'academics', 'professionals' and 'volunteers' cooperate with one another (as well as with others out there who as yet have no more than a passing interest in archaeology).
Through the Micropasts platform, we will develop and support a range of crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding projects. By joining Micropasts, you can help research, fund and/or design as many projects as you like, with as much or as little personal commitment as you wish. Some existing projects are about creating 3D models of archaeological artefacts, enriching old photographic archives or transcribing old archaeological excavation records, to name just a few that we have come up with so far. Other new projects will need your help with financing before they can begin, whilst yet others might be research topics that you want to propose yourself (as an individual, as part of an organised archaeological society or in tandem with other interested people that you meet online). We cannot yet say which projects will prove popular and which ones will not, and we hope that many as yet unanticipated agendas will be dreamt up collectively. In any case, we are keen for your ideas and your contributions wherever we can get them!
In a more technical sense, MicroPasts supports (a) modular applications for massive online data collection about archaeology, history and heritage, as well as (b) a micro-funding model for supporting new (not-for-profit) research projects where collaboration between academic institutions and volunteers is a key feature. The software used to build the platform is entirely free and open source, and the data we create is also required to be open-licensed and publicly available.Current Crowdfuelled and Crowdsourced Projects
Transcription of British Museum Audio outputs
A transcription project for the British Museum's SoundCloud channel.
Video-tagging about the Roman Empire
A video-tagging application for the Ancient Identities Today research project.
Montpelier Glass Cataloging Transcription
Transcription of site catalogue cards from the Montpelier excavations
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