beyond the academy: engagement, education, and exchange
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Beyond the Academy
engagement, education, and exchange
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015
Pip Willcox
Curator of Digital Special Collections
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D
Pip Willcox
What is public engagement?
“Public engagement describes the myriad of ways in which the activity and benefits of higher education and research can be shared with the public. Engagement is by definition a two-way process, involving interaction and listening, with the goal of generating mutual benefit.”
National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagementhttp://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/explore-it/what-public-engagement Bodleian Libraries
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Public engagement at DHOxSS
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#culturalconnections
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Cultural ConnectionsEngage �Embrace �Enhance
Do you want to:Q�Engage with new audiences?Q�Embrace new ideas?Q�Enhance your research?
Come and learn the skills you’ll need from experts at Cultural Connections.
Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange are increasingly part of academic life. This dynamic, participative workshop, a strand of the Digital Humanities @Oxford Summer School, will give you the knowledge and confidence to benefit from sharing your research with audiences beyond the academic.
8 – 12 July 2013, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/
2013
Public engagement at DHOxSS
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#culturalconnectionshttps://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/cultural-connections-exchanging-knowledge-and-widening-
participation-humanities Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D
Cultural ConnectionsEngage �Embrace �Enhance
Do you want to:Q�Engage with new audiences?Q�Embrace new ideas?Q�Enhance your research?
Come and learn the skills you’ll need from experts at Cultural Connections.
Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange are increasingly part of academic life. This dynamic, participative workshop, a strand of the Digital Humanities @Oxford Summer School, will give you the knowledge and confidence to benefit from sharing your research with audiences beyond the academic.
8 – 12 July 2013, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/
2013
National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagementhttp://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/explore-it/what-public-engagement Bodleian Libraries
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Public engagement at DHOxSS
Behind Enemy Lines, by Allison Kay:https://www.zooniverse.org/?reload=0#/projects/Historicaljunky/behind-enemy-lines
Our Country Lives, by Adam Koszary: https://www.zooniverse.org/#/projects/adamkoszary/our-country-lives
Digging the Potomac, by Kenneth Cohen:https://www.zooniverse.org/#/projects/sportprof/digging-the-potomac
Discover Denmark, by Mette Colding Dahl:https://www.zooniverse.org/#/projects/MeCoDa/discover-denmark
Herbaria for Science, by Lisa Chupin:https://www.zooniverse.org/#/projects/Chupin/herbaria-for-science
2015From the workshop:
Crowdsourcing for Academic, Library and Museum EnvironmentsCitizen Science for the Digital Humanities
Today
Politics, practice, practicalities
Message, means, methods
A case study
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Why do we do it?
Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge creation
Citizenship
Moral duty and public good
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What’s in it for us?
Impact
CVs
Increased funding possibilities
Conversation, disruption, subversion
Love of our fields
Ludere Humanum EstBodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D
https://twitter.com/pipwillcox/status/489709060443611136
What’s in it for us?
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https://twitter.com/pipwillcox/status/489709060443611136Anonymized academic colleague.
What’s in it for us?
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“I’ll use a community if they’ll give me their time, but I only care about making history research better. I don’t want to tell stories or listen to what non-experts think.”
Who are we doing it for?
There are 2 types of people^
more than
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Who are we doing it for?The crowd is us. We are the citizens.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc.165, f.217r
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What is your project?
What is your community?
Over to you… #1
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Time and energy
Funding
Ethics
Reflection
Credit
…on top of your research
Practicalities
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Walking on water
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What are you communicating?
To whom?
Why?
Over to you… #2
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As many as there are stories
Ways in, ways through
Let go: people are amazing
Message, means, method
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Revisiting Social Machines
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More people
Mor
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e-infrastructure
Online R&D(Science 2.0)
@dder
Big DataBig Compute
Conventional Computation
“Big Social”Social Networks
Social Machines
David De Roure
The Zooniverse
The Great War Archive
Sprint for Shakespeare
EEBO-TCP hackfest
https://www.zooniverse.org/http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwahttp://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2015/04/22/early-english-books-hackfest/ Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D
Revisiting Social Machines
Message, means, method
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D
British Library on Flickr
1,000,000+ images
1 tweet, 1 blog post
170,000,000 hits in 6 months
British Library on Flickr
1,000,000+ images
1 tweet, 1 blog post
170,000,000 hits in 6 months
Message, means, method
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/http://illustrationarchive.cardiff.ac.uk/ Bodleian Libraries
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Museums
Schools
Communities
Message, means, method
http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/
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Museums
Schools
Communities
Message, means, method
http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/http://www.edwardsboys.org/
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Museums
Schools
Communities
Message, means, method
http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/http://www.edwardsboys.org/
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How will you reach your audiences?
How will you track success?
How will you sustain your engagement?
What will you do with the data?
Over to you... #3
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UCL
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/public-engagement/evaluation/toolkits/methods
NCCPE
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/plan-it/evaluating-public-engagement
Public Engagement Cymru
http://www.assembly.wales/NAfW%20Documents/public_engagement_toolkit_2014.pdf%20-%2007052014/public_engagement_toolkit_2014-English.pdf
Expanding engagement: help to track success
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Visual and aural impairments
Dyslexia
Multilingualism
Types and degrees of literacy
Expanding engagement: open to all?
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Time and enthusiasm
Empathy and communication
Community curation
Funding
Sustaining engagement
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Iterate
Communicate
Let the crowd lead
Reflective practice
Sustaining engagement
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Curate
Co-create
Enjoy
In other words
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Your Public Needs You!
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