A digital time-travel service for New York City with historical maps, collections rich in geospatial data, and the public’s help.
Task:
Inspect ’Building Inspector’ and ’Map Warper’.
Project Status:
Launched 2017. Ongoing.
An open-source hip-hop project created by New York-based artist and computer scientist Brian Foo to engage with LOC’s 3M+ audio clips.
Task:
Create short remixes from audio clips.
Project Status:
Launched Summer 2020.
OldNYC shows 40000 historical images from the New York Public Library's Milstein Collection on a map.
Task:
Improve transcriptions of photos.
Project Status:
Ongoing.
An exploration of religious life through NYC’s five boroughs by searching and documenting every place of worship.
Task:
Data acquisition and research.
Project Status:
Launched 2010. Ongoing.
When provided the name of a prominent female in history, science, technology, or culture, an algorithm generates a character profile.
Task:
Develop algorithm to meet dataset challenge.
Project Status:
Launched December 2019 - June 2020.
An online transcription platform for anyone to transcribe documents from the Library of Congress' digitized collections.
Task:
Explore, transcribe, review, tag assets.
Project Status:
Launched Fall 2018. Ongoing.
A website on Danish cultural heritage. Explore the sights, upload your own story or experience from all over Denmark.
Task:
Contribute assets, provide commentary.
Project Status:
Launched Fall 2018. Ongoing.
A a science, storytelling, and design project that focuses on the population of eastern gray squirrels in Central Park.
Task:
Survey to determine annual squirrel count.
Project Status:
Launched October 2018. Ongoing.
Use of satellite imagery and crowdsourcing to discover and protect remnants of the ancient world, documenting threats to ancient sites.
Task:
Review satellite imagery for signs of threats.
Project Status:
Launched January 2017. Ongoing.
A multi-year initiative that recognizes and protects historic places showcasing women's vision, courage, and leadership.
Task:
Contribute content with photo and description.
Project Status:
Launched January 2020. Ongoing.
Sketchfab’s Cultural Heritage & History category have over 100,000 3D models, added by a broad range of organisations and individuals.
Task:
Text.
Project Status:
Launched March 10, 2011. Ongoing.
Ask historical questions and find new insights in digitized documents from Britain’s Industrial Revolution and ”mechanization” of lives.
Task:
Classify articles from Victorian newspapers.
Project Status:
Ongoing.
A community-based project which catalogues, curates, and promotes commemorative plaques and historical markers, installed worldwide.
Task:
Add plaque photos, listings, and documentation.
Project Status:
Launched 2009. Ongoing.
Europe’s first social networking platform for cultural heritage, which gives voice to citizens through a suite of apps for active engagement.
Task:
Create AR/VR experiences, tours, games.
Project Status:
Launched December 2016. Ongoing.
A free, online, crowdsourced collaborative database of food products from around the world.
Task:
Text.
Project Status:
Launched May 2012. Ongoing.
An online magazine and travel company, it catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations via user-generated content.
Task:
Contribute content.
Project Status:
Launched 2009. Ongoing.
A pioneering platform to catalogue and access publicly-held photo collections, while inviting the general public to co-contextualize.
Task:
Contribute information and knowledge.
Project Status:
Launched January 2008. Ongoing.
A technology nonprofit that promotes historical research and discovery for cities, museums, libraries and urban explorers.
Task:
Create, share, document local history.
Project Status:
Launched 2016. Ongoing.
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