Those interested in community collections, First World War material or history research may want to look at this article by our colleague and friend Dr. Stephen Bull. As the first in a series of three articles on crowdsourcing, Stephen discusses user-generated content (UCG) as ‘new history’.  Some nice examples from the work we have been doing for the last few years – crowdsourcing First World War material.

There is a genuine case to be made that, in the digital age, ‘User Generated Content’ (UGC) is ‘new history’. Its beauty is twofold: much of it has never been shared outside of a family or personal context, and now, being seen publicly for the first time, it can be marshalled into categories and mined for research.

Bull, Stephen (2016): Europeana 1914-1918: Showcasing Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content as The ‘New’ History