The HeritageCrowd Project:: A Case Study in Crowdsourcing Public History. Graham, S., Massie, G., & Feuerherm, N. In Dougherty, J. & Nawrotzki, K., editors, Writing History in the Digital Age, pages 222–232. University of Michigan Press, 2013.
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Digital history is public history: when we put materials online, we enter into a conversation with individuals from all walks of life, with various voices and degrees of professionalism. In this essay, we discuss our experience in relinquishing control of the historical voice in order to crowdsource cultural heritage and history. What is the role of the historian when we crowdsource history? Whose history is it anyway—the historian’s or the crowd’s? Which crowd can lay claim to it? Wikipedia , the exemplar par excellence of what crowdsourcing can accomplish, has perhaps the most succinct and elegant definition of the term:
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	abstract = {Digital history is public history: when we put materials online, we enter into a conversation with individuals from all walks of life, with various voices and degrees of professionalism. In this essay, we discuss our experience in relinquishing control of the historical voice in order to crowdsource cultural heritage and history. What is the role of the historian when we crowdsource history? Whose history is it anyway—the historian’s or the crowd’s? Which crowd can lay claim to it?   \textit{Wikipedia} , the exemplar par excellence of what crowdsourcing can accomplish, has perhaps the most succinct and elegant definition of the term:},
	urldate = {2021-03-08},
	booktitle = {Writing {History} in the {Digital} {Age}},
	publisher = {University of Michigan Press},
	author = {Graham, Shawn and Massie, Guy and Feuerherm, Nadine},
	editor = {Dougherty, Jack and Nawrotzki, Kristen},
	year = {2013},
	doi = {10.2307/j.ctv65sx57.24},
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