The document discusses the transition from crowdsourcing to knowledge communities in creating impactful scholarship through digital collaboration. It emphasizes the importance of local storytelling to enhance civic engagement and community connections, as well as the role of technology and society in this process. Additionally, it highlights the need for co-designed projects, new evaluation frameworks, and effective data sharing methods.

1. From Crowdsourcing to
Knowledge Communities: Creating
Meaningful Scholarship Through
Digital Collaboration
Jon Voss
Strategic Partnerships Director
Historypin
jon.voss@historypin.org
@jonvoss
@historypin
historypin.org

6. Social Good? http://bit.ly/historypin-community

7. Civic Engagement Is Declining

8. Engagement Enhances Happiness

9. We Believe That
Local people
Sharing stories about a
shared place
Build stronger local
connections
Actor
+
Action
=
Impact

10. Year of the Bay
regional, broad topic
Living with the
Railroads
regional, domain specific
500 Novels
broad corpus, specific tasks
Crowdsourcing for Humanities Research
http://humanitiescrowdsourcing.stanford.edu/

11. http://yearofthebay.org

17. http://blog.historypin.org/2013/07/04/crowdsourcing-year-of-the-bay-historymysteries/

20. http://www.historypin.org/project/42-railroads/

23. https://www.historypin.org/en/explore/victorian-london/

27. Take-aways
Crowdsourcing vs. Knowledge Communities
Of the web not on the web (tech + society)
Identifying community partners and demand/interest
Co-designing projects and research
Outputs & Rewards
Longer timeframes!

28. Future Research
Evaluation framework & measurements
Annotation Tools (UI + Demand?)
Data Sharing (Round-tripping)