Building sustainability and informing policy: The MicroPasts programme of knowledge exchange

建立可持续性并为政策提供信息：MicroPasts 知识交流计划

• 批准号: AH/M00953X/1
• 负责人: Andrew Bevan
• 金额: $ 9.73万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM00953X%2F1
• 关键词: Building; sustainability; informing; policy; MicroPasts

This Follow-on project will build on the successful results achieved by the original MicroPasts project ('Crowd- and Community-Fuelled Archaeological Research') and will take them forward via two linked programmes of knowledge exchange that will have a transformative and long-lasting impact on heritage policy and practice, as well as on MicroPasts developers and contributors. MicroPasts initially received funding under the AHRC call for Digital Transformations in Community Research Co-Production in the Arts and Humanities and, over its 18 month duration (1 October 2013-31 March 2015), the team have developed, implemented and started to evaluate a novel model to support collaborative research in archaeology, history and heritage that draws on a combination of crowd-sourcing, co-design and crowd-funding. We now propose to undertake knowledge exchanges and further evaluation with two aims: (1) to study and enable a community-led model of platform and project management that is sustainable in the longer-term, and (2) to inform heritage policy and practice in the UK, and guide investments in participatory projects that use crowd-sourcing and/or crowd-funding. With those aims in mind, we plan to engage interested MicroPasts contributors in discussions about how they might take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the MicroPasts websites, and then develop the technical resources, guidelines and skills that are necessary for a community-led model of platform and project management to become fully operational. With policy-makers, analysts and practitioners in the heritage sector, we wish to review the methods and results of the evaluation conducted over the lifetime of MicroPasts so far, to steer further reflection and develop knowledge about the benefits generated by the use of crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding, for individuals, communities and heritage, and about how best to capture these benefits. We will respond to MicroPasts contributors' stated desire to take forward the work conducted until now and help maintain the digital resources created in the lifetime of MicroPasts, so that they can continue using and benefiting from them. In addition, the knowledge exchange programme with volunteers will offer both contributors and current core staff meaningful learning opportunities, which can also be important for employment and career development purposes. Beyond significantly strengthening the co-creative nature of MicroPasts, we expect that this model of community-led management could potentially provide an exemplar for the longer-term sustainability of other web-based participatory projects that use crowd-sourcing or crowd-funding. This knowledge exchange programme will produce tutorials and guidelines that will be made available open access for anyone to download and re-use.Furthermore, knowledge exchange among heritage policy-makers and practitioners will bridge a substantial knowledge gap about the ways in which more participatory and digitally interactive cooperation with the public can support heritage organisations in re-designing and improving their services in the context of economic downturn. In addition, the project will help heritage institutions and funding bodies to face the numerous technical, ethical and methodological challenges of evaluating community- and crowd-fuelled projects. This strand of the knowledge exchange programme will be conducted via workshop discussions, followed by the write up of a summary paper and evaluation guidelines, together with a full report on the MicroPasts evaluation. These resources will be made available online, but also circulated directly amongst the extensive network of heritage professionals with whom the project staff and their proposed collaborators are in contact.

该后续项目将建立在最初的 MicroPasts 项目（“人群和社区推动的考古研究”）所取得的成功成果的基础上，并将通过两个相互关联的知识交流计划来推动这些项目的发展，这将具有变革性和持久性对遗产政策和实践以及 MicroPasts 开发者和贡献者的影响。 MicroPasts 最初根据 AHRC 呼吁艺术和人文社区研究联合生产数字化转型获得资金，在 18 个月的持续时间（2013 年 10 月 1 日至 2015 年 3 月 31 日）内，该团队已经开发、实施并开始评估支持考古学、历史和遗产领域合作研究的新颖模式，利用众包、共同设计和众筹相结合的方式。我们现在建议进行知识交流和进一步评估，有两个目的：(1) 研究并实现社区主导的长期可持续的平台和项目管理模式，(2) 为遗产政策和实践提供信息在英国，并指导对使用众包和/或众筹的参与式项目的投资。考虑到这些目标，我们计划让感兴趣的 MicroPasts 贡献者参与讨论，讨论他们如何负责 MicroPasts 网站的日常运行，然后开发社区所需的技术资源、指南和技能主导的平台和项目管理模式全面投入运行。我们希望与遗产部门的政策制定者、分析师和从业者一起回顾迄今为止在 MicroPast 的生命周期中进行的评估方法和结果，以引导进一步反思和发展关于使用众包所产生的好处的知识。为个人、社区和遗产提供采购和众筹，以及如何最好地获取这些利益。我们将响应 MicroPasts 贡献者的愿望，推进迄今为止开展的工作，并帮助维护 MicroPasts 生命周期中创建的数字资源，以便他们能够继续使用并从中受益。此外，与志愿者的知识交流计划将为贡献者和现有核心员工提供有意义的学习机会，这对于就业和职业发展也很重要。除了显着加强 MicroPasts 的共同创造性质之外，我们预计这种社区主导的管理模式可能会为其他使用众包或众筹的基于网络的参与性项目的长期可持续性提供一个范例。该知识交流计划将制作教程和指南，供任何人免费下载和重复使用。此外，遗产政策制定者和从业者之间的知识交流将弥合关于如何提高参与性和可持续性的巨大知识差距。与公众的数字互动合作可以支持遗产组织在经济衰退的背景下重新设计和改进其服务。此外，该项目还将帮助遗产机构和资助机构应对评估社区和众筹项目时面临的众多技术、道德和方法挑战。这一部分知识交流计划将通过研讨会讨论进行，然后撰写总结文件和评估指南，以及关于 MicroPasts 评估的完整报告。这些资源将在网上提供，但也会直接在与项目工作人员及其拟议合作者保持联系的遗产专业人士的广泛网络中传播。

项目成果

Co-producing Knowledge Online

在线共同生产知识

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: AHRC Connected Community Review Series
• 作者: Chiara Bonacchi

Participation in heritage crowdsourcing

参与遗产众包

• DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2018.1559080
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Museum Management and Curatorship
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Bonacchi C

Crowd- and community-fuelled archaeology. Early results from the MicroPasts project

人群和社区推动的考古学。

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Bonacchi, C

Digital Co-production in Archaeology. An editorial

考古学数字联合制作。

• DOI: 10.11141/ia.46.1
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Internet Archaeology
• 作者: Bonacchi C

The Heritage of Brexit

英国脱欧的遗产

• DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5966818.v1
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Marta Krzyzanska