online outreach at rcahms / alan muirden, rcahms education manager, andrew nicoll, scotlandsplaces...
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Alan Muirden describes how the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Momunements of Scotland has used social media and crowdsourcing techniques to develop outreach and drive user interaction and collaboration via their MyCanmore site. Twinned with the presentation by Andrew Nicoll on ScotlandsPlaces. Presented at the 6th annual Metadata & Web 2.0 seminar organised by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland, held at the National Library of Scotland, 21 June 2013TRANSCRIPT
Online Outreach at RCAHMS
Alan Muirden : RCAHMS Education ManagerAndrew Nicoll : ScotlandsPlaces Outreach Officer
Online Outreach at RCAHMS
Online Outreach at RCAHMS
Canmore
•Inventory•> 300,000 recorded sites
• Catalogue•> 3 million Collection items
• Online Image Gallery•> 150,000 digital images available
Canmore
Canmore
My Canmore
Online Outreach at RCAHMS
Online Outreach at RCAHMS
My Canmore
• Launched August 2009
• Final phase of ‘Treasured Places’
• Continuous monitoring, no intervention
• Subject of ‘Beyond text’ PhD studentship research
• MyCanmore UserGroup formed February 2011
My Canmore – headline results
• > 6,000 registered users
• > 27,000 public image contributions
• > 1,600 public text contributions
MyCanmore contributions
MyCanmore images
© C S Cameron
MyCanmore images
© West Lothian Archaeology Group
MyCanmore images
© Martin Briscoe
MyCanmore text
MyCanmore text
MyCanmore text
MyCanmore text
Flickr
Flickr
Current Projects
Current Projects
Current Projects
Online Outreach at RCAHMS
Alan Muirden : RCAHMS Education ManagerAndrew Nicoll : ScotlandsPlaces Outreach Officer