Crowdsourcing cultural heritage: public participation and conflict legacy in Finland

Seitsonen, Oula

doi:10.1080/20518196.2016.1252129

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“…This corroborates our wider research concerning the motivation for the engagement of history enthusiasts and collectors with the WWII material heritage in Finnish Lapland: most of the history hobbyists seem to have personal and local connections to this particular heritage (e.g. Herva et al 2016;Seitsonen 2017). Special interests included professional and scientific expertise.…”

Section: Doing Archaeology With Volunteerssupporting

confidence: 85%

Public engagements with Lapland’s Dark Heritage: Community archaeology in Finnish Lapland

Banks

Koskinen-Koivisto

Seitsonen

2017

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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Research project Lapland's Dark Heritage organized a one-week public excavation in Inari, Finnish Lapland, at a Second World War (WWII) German military hospital site in August 2016. #InariDig took place with the help of international experts and pre-registered volunteers. In this field report, two of the archaeologists leading the excavations and an ethnographer who took part in documenting this community archaeology experiment introduce the excavation sites and activities reflecting on the engagements with volunteers and local community.

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Section: Doing Archaeology With Volunteerssupporting

confidence: 85%

Public engagements with Lapland’s Dark Heritage: Community archaeology in Finnish Lapland

Banks

Koskinen-Koivisto

Seitsonen

2017

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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“…Contributing to projects aimed at investigating and solving social problems can be a personally empowering experience, as Williams (2013) points out in an article reviewing the different ways in which crowdsourcing is now being applied to contemporary criminal investigation and law enforcement. Participation in heritage projects may likewise help citizens confront and better understand troubling and violent aspects of the past, as well as assisting scholars to better comprehend public perspectives of such subjects (Seitsonen, 2017). Equally, it has been suggested that crowdsourcing helps build a sense of community by 'democratizing history' (Grove, 2011: 6).…”

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Sharing the archive: Using web technologies for accessing, storing and re-using historical data

Finnane

Kaladelfos

Piper

2018

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Historical data pose a variety of problems to those who seek statistically based understandings of the past. Quantitative historical analysis has been limited by researcher's reliance on rigid statistics collected by individuals or agencies, or else by researcher access to small samples of raw data. Even digital technologies by themselves have not been enough to overcome the challenges of working with manuscript sources and aligning dis-aggregated data. However, by coupling the facilities enabled by the web with the enthusiasm of the public for explorations of the past, history has started to make the same strides towards big data evident in other fields. While the use of citizens to crowdsource research data was first pioneered within the sciences, a number of projects have similarly begun to draw on the help of citizen historians. This article explores the particular example of the Prosecution Project, which since 2014 has been using crowdsourced volunteers on a research collaboration to build a large-scale relational database of criminal prosecutions throughout Australia from the early 1800s to 1960s. The article outlines the opportunities and challenges faced by projects seeking to use web technologies to access, store and re-use historical data in an environment that increasingly enables creative collaborations between researchers and other users of social and historical data.

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“…Crowdsourcing and citizen scientists are used to great effect in other scientific research, and has been especially popular within the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (known shorthand as GLAM) community (Ridge, 2014). It has also been put to good use in the monitoring of wildlife such as birds (Sullivan et al, 2014), and by media agencies for collecting public knowledge of historical periods such as the First and Second World Wars and the Finnish Civil War (Seitsonen, 2017), to name a few examples.…”

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Fool’s gold? A critical assessment of sources of data on heritage crime

Grove

Thomas

Daubney

2018

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Structured AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore critically various sources of data available on heritage crime, and consider how these may be utilised and improved.Design/methodology/approach -This study is primarily a scoping review of the current heritage crime data climate, embedding examples from a range of existing and potential information sources. It highlights opportunities to improve data resources.Findings -A lack of consistency in reporting and recording practices means there is little meaningful evidence about heritage crime trends and patterns. This needs to change in order to develop and evaluate appropriate strategies to reduce the problem of heritage crime nationally and internationally.Research limitations/implications -It is hoped that urging improvement of data resources in the heritage crime sector will inspire a greater number of researchers to analyse and address key problems within heritage crime.Practical implications -This paper encourages the development of new and improved data collection methods to foster effective assessment of existing heritage crime reduction schemes and better support victims of heritage crime.Social implications -Increasing availability and accessibility of high-quality data on heritage crime would allow for developing better protections and resource allocation for vulnerable heritage.Originality/value -This paper has drawn together, for the first time, evidence of the existing state of affairs of data availability within heritage crime. It is a position paper which encourages the development of improved recording and reporting practices both formally and informally across heritage and criminal justice sectors in order to support further research and understanding of the heritage crime problem.

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Crowdsourcing cultural heritage: public participation and conflict legacy in Finland

Cited by 36 publications

References 24 publications

Public engagements with Lapland’s Dark Heritage: Community archaeology in Finnish Lapland

Public engagements with Lapland’s Dark Heritage: Community archaeology in Finnish Lapland

Sharing the archive: Using web technologies for accessing, storing and re-using historical data

Fool’s gold? A critical assessment of sources of data on heritage crime

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