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Critical Toolkits for Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement: A Free, Virtual Workshop
March 21, 2024 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Are you interested in developing a digital project for crowdsourcing and community engagement? Join eLaboratories for a free, virtual 90-minute workshop that explores the process of organizing programs and digital projects that invite school and community groups to help enrich digitized archives.
Led by Denise Burgher and Jim Casey (Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State), this workshop is designed for teams who may wish to develop crowdsourcing transcription projects to invite communities to participate in the work of developing electronic editions. Burgher and Casey will cover the basics by sharing a series of resources from Douglass Day, including organizing kits, outreach materials, and strategies for curricular engagement. Along with exploring the most popular crowdsourcing platforms, there will be time in the workshop to start thinking practically about developing your projects and programs.
Presenter Bios
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 associate director of the Center for Black Digital Research. His digital research projects include, among others, the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, and the Editorship Studies Collective.
