Tag: crowdsourcing

  • Call for Papers – Making ‘Big Data’ Human: Doing History in a Digital Age

    Call for Papers – Making ‘Big Data’ Human: Doing History in a Digital Age

    Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge, 9th September 2015 With Keynote Speaker Prof. Jane Winters, Professor of Digital History and Head of Publications, Institute of Historical Research In a digital society, it is hard to escape discussions of ‘big data’, massive amounts of information that need database and software techniques for full processing.  But beyond…

  • Public History in the Digital Sphere: /r/AskHistorians

    Public History in the Digital Sphere: /r/AskHistorians

    By Joe Rachman What sparked the craze for martial arts, particularly kung fu, in 1970s America? Why did some Serbs commit acts of genocide in the late twentieth century despite Serbs themselves having been victims of genocide during World War Two? What started the Opium Wars? Did Zarathustra, the supposed founder of Zoroastrianism, actually exist?…