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Engaging Communities in Crowdsourcing Using the Zooniverse Project Builder
April 3, 2025 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time
Are you interested in creating a crowdsourcing transcription project? If you build it, how do you make sure people care? What role can crowdsourcing serve in this moment?
Join eLaboratories on April 3 at 3:00 PM EDT for this free, virtual 90-minute workshop with Denise Burgher and Jim Casey (Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State). Drawing from their experience leading the Colored Conventions Project and Douglass Day, Burgher and Casey will guide you through the lifecycle of crowdsourcing projects using the free Zooniverse Project Builder—from design and development to launch and project completion. This workshop is designed for people or teams who may wish to explore using crowdsourcing projects for research and for engaging communities and K-12 schools. No experience is required.
About the Presenters
Denise Burgher is the senior team leader for curriculum and community engagement at the Colored Conventions Project where she co-directs Douglass Day with Jim Casey at the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State. She is finishing her PhD in English at the University of Delaware on Afro-Protestant nineteenth century women writers. Her work has been supported by a dissertation fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and has appeared in Legacy, The Collective Wisdom Handbook, and in numerous public venues. She is a member of JTO and is a co-founder and co-director of the Black digital humanities project, Taught by Literature which focuses on the work of Alice Dunbar Nelson and her literary contemporaries.
Jim Casey is an assistant professor of African American Studies, History, and English at Penn State, where he serves as founding associate director of the Center for Black Digital Research. His digital research projects include, among others, the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, and the Early Black Press Project.
