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Crowdsourcing with Dr Mia Ridge | Making Tech Better podcast

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What is crowdsourcing, and how is it used to improve the British Library’s online cultural heritage collections? Clare Sudbery talks to crowdsourcing expert Dr Mia Ridge about the power of volunteer digital engagement. Guest: Dr Mia Ridge is the British Library’s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections, where she provides support, training and guidance on applying computational research methods to historical collections. Host: Clare Sudbery is a Lead Engineer with Made Tech and a maths graduate with 21 years of software engineering experience. She has a particular interest in teaching and mentoring, enabling more diversity in IT, and banishing imposter syndrome. Our theme tune is “For The Miles” by Richard Murray Learn more about our open roles: https://www.madetech.com/careers/ ...more
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Intro

0:00

Who is Mia Ridge

0:59

Keepers

1:20

Inspiration

1:56

What is crowdsourcing

3:08

Interactive materials

8:46

Intellectual barriers

9:22

Threshold fears

10:19

Language

11:26

Scanning lowres newspapers

12:47

About Made Tech

17:21

AI

18:39

Negative side of crowdsourcing

22:38

How to spell your name

26:29

Minimize signoff

30:48

UX and crowdsourcing

31:43

Level of abstraction

33:35

True or false

34:12

Best thing about the last month

34:49

How to get involved

35:29

Zoo Universe

36:21

Summary

36:45

Making Life Better

40:38

Outro

42:20
Crowdsourcing with Dr Mia Ridge | Making Tech Better podcast
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What is crowdsourcing, and how is it used to improve the British Library’s online cultural heritage collections? Clare Sudbery talks to crowdsourcing expert Dr Mia Ridge about the power of volunteer digital engagement. Guest: Dr Mia Ridge is the British Library’s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections, where she provides support, training and guidance on applying computational research methods to historical collections. Host: Clare Sudbery is a Lead Engineer with Made Tech and a maths graduate with 21 years of software engineering experience. She has a particular interest in teaching and mentoring, enabling more diversity in IT, and banishing imposter syndrome. Our theme tune is “For The Miles” by Richard Murray Learn more about our open roles: https://www.madetech.com/careers/
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