These are the references from my workshop “Crowdsourcing user-generated content: using the Oxford Community Collection Model to engage audiences and create collections” (at MW2015, the annual conference of Museums and the Web, April 8-11, 2015, Chicago).

I will occasionally be tweeting from the conference, especially around the professional forum I’ll be participating in about gathering user-generated content of the US in the First World War. Alun Edwards, Academic IT, University of Oxford

Support for crowdsourcing, community collections and social media:

• RunCoCo, University of Oxford http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
• The Oxford Community Collection Model http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/2013/06/24/the-oxford-community-collection-model
• Jisc: Developing Community Collections www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/infokits/community_content/
• Jisc: Photo Sharing Sites www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/photo-sharing-sites

Crowdsourcing projects:

• Zooniverse and Citizen Science www.zooniverse.org
• Transcribe Bentham http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
• nQuire-it, The Open University www.nquire-it.org

Community collections

• The Great War Archive, University of Oxford www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
• Woruldhord http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
• Merton@750 http://share.merton.ox.ac.uk
• AgeExchange Children of the Great War www.age-exchange.org.uk/what-we-do/arts-projects/great-war
• Europeana 1989 http://europeana1989.eu/

General references:

• BRADWELL, Peter, ‘The Edgeless University: why higher education must embrace technology’, DEMOS 2009. ISBN: 978-1-906693-16-9 [PDF]
• Europeana www.europeana.eu/portal
  • SS Eastland, sunk Chicago 1915:
    • Europeana: “11. Het lichten van het omgeslagen stoomschip ‘Eastland’. 14 augustus 1915” in “Laatste bioscoop wereldberichten”
    • Washington Post
    • ABC News
• The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/
• YouTube: ww1Lit
• HEAD, Alison J. and EISENBERG, Michael B. “How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course-related research” (‘First Monday’ Volume 15, 3 – March 1 2010)
• HOWE, Jeff: “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” (WIRED MAGAZINE – Issue 14.06 – June 2006)
• Jisc: ‘Researchers for Tomorrow: the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students’ The British Library and HEFCE, 2012.
• Lancashire Museums – educational work:
  • A Call To Arms @ Lancashire Infantry Museum (YouTube)
  • Arts Award Explore at Lancashire Infantry Museum and The Museum of Lancashire (CC BY-NC 3.0 on Vimeo)
• LEE, Stuart D. “Hitler’s Postcard”, University of Oxford Annual Review 2012 (on YouTube)
• LEE, Stuart D. and LINDSAY, Kate: “If you build it, they will scan: Oxford University’s exploration of community collections” (EDUCAUSE Quarterly July 30 2009)
• MERKEL, Angela: Lieber 20 Stunden länger verhandeln. Bundesregierung 24 May 2014 (on YouTube)
• Poetry by Heart www.poetrybyheart.org.uk (on YouTube)
• Retronaut:
  • Retronaut on Facebook
  • Retronaut on Mashable
  • Retronaut in The Guardian
• RIDGE, Mia, Open University, UK. Crowdsourcing our cultural heritage. UK: Ashgate, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1022-1
• SIMON, Nina “The Participatory Museum” www.participatorymuseum.org
• STORER, Jackie. Hidden stories of the First World War. The British Library, UK, 2014. ISBN-10: 0712357386
• Wikimedia case-studies Derby Museum and GLAM Derby

Example stories from the community collection initiatives:

• “Farewell note in a matchbox” CC BY-SA Maureen Rogers via Europeana 1914-1918
• Photograph of American War Recruits before leaving on Train. CC-BY-SA-NC: The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / David Flam via First World War Poetry Digital Archive
• “The Stretcher Bearer” by Crawford, Thomas Albert. CC-BY-SA-NC: The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Brian Crawford via First World War Poetry Digital Archive
• “Nurse Maureen Kelly at the Italian Front”. CC-BY-SA: Sarah O’Connor on behalf of Eva Bunyan via Europeana 1914-1918
• “Autograph Book of a VAD”. CC-BY-SA: Richard Jackson via Europeana 1914-1918
• “Rehearsing for A Winter’s Tale” © Graham Whittington (photograph) and Mike Taylor,  Merton@750: An Anniversary Collection
• “The Lord’s Prayer”. CC-BY-SA-NC: University of Oxford / Matt Love via Worludhord
• Historypin: Langaičių šeima iš Kauno 1989 m. Baltijos Kelyje CC-BY-SA: via Europeana 1989
• Hartlepool bombardment:
  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Bombardement de Hartlepool [Grande-Bretagne, homme montrant des débris] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol, 43611] via Europeana 1914-1918
  • Photograph of Joseph Max Ludwig Pfefferle. CC-BY-SA: Ilse Windhoff via Europeana 1914-1918
  • BRITTAIN, Vera. “War Diary: Friday December 18th 1914”. CC-BY-SA-NC: Vera Brittain Estate, 1970 / McMaster University Library via the First World War Poetry Digital Archive
• ‘German flag captured by Percival Cameron Chaplin in German South West Africa’. CC-BY-SA Elisabeth Sturgess via Europeana 1914-1918
• Photograph of Willie Gaunt. CC-BY-SA-NC: The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Jill Ross via First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Illustrations:

• ‘grandma II’ by kalidoskopika CC BY-SA 2.0
• Audio-recorders © used with kind permission of Raymond Clement
• Portuguese Red Cross nurses © used with kind permission of Ana Rodrigues
• The rifleman © used with kind permission of whereiseggy
• David Mikheil Shubladze: Baltic Way 1989 23/08
• USMC
• USMC on Flickr
• RTE: Family treasures at WWI roadshow