OxCrowd: From Tags to Tools: Using crowdsourcing to understand and encourage engagement with cultural heritage

PAST EVENT | 06 June 2017 16:00 - 06 June 2017 17:00

The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to have Pembroke Senior Research Fellow, Dr Kathryn Eccles, and Jamie Cameron give the second OxCrowd talk of the term 'From Tags to Tools: Using crowdsourcing to understand and encourage engagement with cultural heritage'.

This event will take place in the Oxford Internet Institute at 4pm on Tuesday 6th June. For more information about the event a speakers click here . Register for a place via Eventbrite.

This talk will show how a research project to understand the motivation and behaviour of volunteer art ‘taggers’ led to the creation of a new teaching resource encouraging students to engage with objects and images in cultural heritage collections, and a series of innovative and interactive public engagement events.

OxCrowd: From Tags to Tools: Using crowdsourcing to understand and encourage engagement with cultural heritage

PAST EVENT | 06 June 2017 16:00 - 06 June 2017 17:00

The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to have Pembroke Senior Research Fellow, Dr Kathryn Eccles, and Jamie Cameron give the second OxCrowd talk of the term 'From Tags to Tools: Using crowdsourcing to understand and encourage engagement with cultural heritage'.

This event will take place in the Oxford Internet Institute at 4pm on Tuesday 6th June. For more information about the event a speakers click here . Register for a place via Eventbrite.

This talk will show how a research project to understand the motivation and behaviour of volunteer art ‘taggers’ led to the creation of a new teaching resource encouraging students to engage with objects and images in cultural heritage collections, and a series of innovative and interactive public engagement events.