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- 1. DIY Natural History Public Engagement through Digital Collections Mark F. Anderson Digital Collections Librarian The University of Iowa Iowa History Camp Nov. 14, 2015 Des Moines, Iowa
- 3. 100+ collections, 750,000+ images, sound, video University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections and Archives: • Civil War Diaries • Henry Wallace Papers • Historic Iowa Landownership Maps • Ding Darling Editorial Cartoons • Stradivari Quartet Recordings University Campus Partners: • UI Museum of Art • Office of the State Archaeologist Photographs • Dentistry College Class Photographs • Iowa Journalists Oral Histories • University of Iowa Alumni Publications Off-Campus Contributors: • Figge Art Museum Grant Wood Scrapbooks • Live From Prairie Lights Readings • WWII Iowa Press Clippings • Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Videos • Evelyn Birkby Scrapbooks and Recordings http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu
- 14. Citizen Science
- 19. The 80/20 rule Pareto principle Law of the vital few Principle of factor sparsity
- 21. 80/20 rule in action! In mid-October, 588 transcriptions (starts + edits) 28 registered users 20 % = 6 users Those top 6 had done 467/588 Or… 79.4%
- 22. Student giving a speech in class, 1940s The University of Iowa http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ictcs/id/3202 Questions?
Editor's Notes
- Concept of Citizen Scholarship and Participatory Archives was entering into the mainstream around 2010.
- Oyster Suppers, British Power User, Digitized every last Civil War letter or diary in Spec Coll, New System Built on Wikimedia platform
- Began digitizing WWII diaries to assist a series of rhetoric courses at UI that wanted students to do rhetorical analysis on primary source letters and diaries.
- DIY v.3 no longer Wikimedia platform, but transcriptions are saved back to digital collection in real time
- 9 current collections in DIY History add up to over 61,000 pages of transcriptions. Fans of AMC’s series “Hell on Wheels” will recognize the name Thomas C. Durant.
- A similar crowdsourcing project related to the Kepler space telescope helped identify strange debris around a planet in another galaxy a couple of weeks ago, and those citizen scientists were even included as authors in the scientific paper that was published about the phenomena.