The MicroPasts project, an AHRC collaborative UCL-British Museum Project, uses web-based technologies to foster collaborations between researchers based in higher education and heritage institutions and members of the public to study the human past. Together, the project team has created new open archaeological data via crowdsourcing (crowdsourced.micropasts.org) and arranged the micro-financing of community archaeology and community history projects (crowdfunded.micropasts.org).
The MicroPasts end of first phase funding conference will be held at the Royal Geographical Society on the 31st March 2015. We look forward to welcoming you and tickets can be purchased online or via contacting us directly. The conference programme has now been finalised and features some very interesting speakers as shown below. Lunch is provided in the ticket price and there will be some free things to take away (apart from the knowledge shared) and we hope to film the speakers. Many of the speakers are on Twitter (linked to their names below) and there maybe a lively back channel to accompany the event, which will be archived.
09.30-09.45 Welcome (Andrew Bevan, UCL)
09.45-10.30 Crowd-fuelled archaeology and history online: an introduction to MicroPasts (Chiara Bonacchi and Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, UCL)
10.30-10.55 Curatorial practice and the crowd-sourcing of museum archives and objects (Daniel Pett, Jennifer Wexler and Neil Wilkin, British Museum)
10.55-11.20 PyBossa: Helping citizens and scientists to collaborate (Daniel Lombraña González,PyBossa)
11.20-11.35 Coffee break (provided)
11.35-12.00 Crowdsourcing archaeological data through the Heritage Together project (Helen Miles, Aberystwyth University; Katharina Moeller and Andrew Wilson (Bangor University)
12.00-12.25 From curated space to personal space: crowdsourcing and the museum experience (Stuart Dunn, KCL)
12.25-12.50 Experiences from the Smithsonian Institution Transcription Center (Meghan Ferriter, Smithsonian Institution Transcription Center)
12.50-13.15 If you build it, will they come? (Maiya Pina-Dacier, DigVentures)
13.15-14.15 Lunch (provided)
14.15-14.30 The Ur Project. Reunification and integration (Birger Helgestad, British Museum)
14.30-14.45 Worthington G. Smith: his haunts and relics (Claire Harris, British Museum)
14.45-15.00 Reviewing MicroPasts (Lisa Cardy, MicroPasts)
15.00-15.15 Reviewing MicroPasts (Hugh Fiske, MicroPasts)
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-15.45 3D Scans in the Wild (Thomas Flynn, multimedia designer)
15.45-16.00 Process and experimentation in making 3D prints of museum objects (Stefano Pratesi, ThinkSee3D)
16.00-16.15 Do Touch! Archaeology and 3D printing in the Classroom (Jordan Hassell and Oliver Hutchinson, UCL)
16.15-16.30 3D models and digital futures at the British Museum (Suzy Hogg, British Museum)
16.30-17.00 Discussion
17:00 Adjourn to a pub for further conversation