Decision Time - NDF Programme

After much consideration and consultation I've finally come to a decision concerning the sessions I'll be attending at the National Digital Forum.

On the first day I'll be attending the following

Donelle McKinley - How to support participation and quality contribution on websites for crowdsourcing cultural heritage

Lex Oxley - Measuring the ANZACs: crowdsourcing a complete transcription of WWI soldiers through Zooniverse

Jeffrey Weekly - CineGrid NZ and REANNZ: collaboration and digital creation over ultra-high speed networks

On the second day

Courtney Johnston, Stuart Yeates, Sara Barham and Mike Dickison - Panel discussion: Wikipedia

Courtney Johnston - From podcasts to The Pen: digital adventures in the US of A

Nicola Harwood - Maintaining momentum: keeping a collaborative digital project alive and kicking

Adam Moriarty - Adventures in linked data: Auckland Museum's new collection online database.

I'm very much looking forward to absorbing the information given in all these sessions as well as attending the conference in general. Roll on Tuesday!

National Digital Conference - Preparation

I've been lucky enough to gain a scholarship to attend the National Digital Forum Conference to be held on October 13th and 14th at Te Papa in Wellington, New Zealand.  In return for the scholarship I've been asked to give a summary of  my experiences at the conference and thought a blog might be the best way to do this.  At present I'm in the process of deciding which presentations to attend.  Looking at the programme, choosing the lectures to attend is definitely going to be the most challenging part of the conference.  My main areas of interest are crowdsourcing and citizen science projects and their use within  GLAM institutions.  This focus does narrow the number of talks I want to see.  However, I find I wish to be in at least two places at once, at several points in the conference.  As a result, my aim this week is to dive into research about the presenters to attempt to finalise which lectures I want to attend.

About me

I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I'm interested in crowdsourcing and citizen science for the perspective of one of the "crowd". I participate in a variety of projects including the Smithsonian Institution's Transcription Center, Zooniverse, DigiVol, Biodiversity Heritage Library and Wikipedia, to name but a few.