Description
Crowd-sourcing is transforming the way heritage data is obtained. By enabling anonymous citizens or visitors to produce measurements or carry out small tasks, heritage institutions can simultaneously increase data collection rates and engagement levels. These methods are, however, subject to important practical and theoretical problems. This groupwork based module equips you with the tools to think critically about crowd-sourcing methods in heritage and to evaluate the data obtained by them. You will learn how to design a crowd-sourcing exercise, and experiment with appropriate measures to control the quality of the obtained data. The data-gathering methods may be: the use of smartphones to obtain visual information (colour, dimension, area, shape), wearable and low-cost sensors to obtain information that can inform preventive conservation (pollutants, moisture, temperature) or to obtain textual information that can help interpretation (tags, classification of images, transcriptions). You will also develop statistical skills to assess the metrology of the crowd-sourced data. Finally, you will explore the scientific and ethical issues associated with this new type of analytical technique.
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Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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