RSI session resource pack – digital volunteering

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Session Resource Pack

Digital volunteering – panel session

2.35pm — 3.35pm
BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum & Online

Pottery shard from a Farewell mug at Portland Museum

3D model: pottery shard from a Farewell mug from Earl of Abergavenny shipwreck. Image courtesy Portland Museum©

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Creating 3D digital models of museum collection objects

Woodland with arrows showing remains of World War II underground Operational Base

Tour of the remains of Harberton OB. Image courtesy of CART ©

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Recording and editing 360-degree virtual tours

Laptop open with Wikipedia on the screen

Photo by Oberon Copeland @veryinformed.com on Unsplash

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Training digital volunteers to create place-based heritage articles on Wikipedia

Create a remote global volunteer base to improve the searchability of digital archive

Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash

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Create a remote global volunteer base to improve the searchability of digital archive

Young woman with red hair holding green headphones

Photo by Letícia Pelissari on Unsplash

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Transcribing audio and video archive material

Video: Banishing the backlog with digital volunteers

Image courtesy of Museum of East Anglian Life ©

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Video: Banishing the backlog with digital volunteers

Old passports, ration books and identity cards

Roberta Hewitt: Lost and Found in the Archives. Image courtesy of CollabArchive©

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Producing digitally creative and publicly engaging content that responds to archives

Creating online promotional material

Behind the scenes filming at Ripon Cathedral. Image courtesy of Ripon Cathedral ©

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Creating online promotional material

Outside photograph of Manchester Museum

Manchester Museum. Photo by Chris Curry on Unsplash

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Recruit and manage multilingual digital volunteers to interpret online collections

Outside photo of Bright Museum next to a garden and trees

Photo by Yana Tes on Unsplash

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Creating digital storytelling experiences for your heritage venue

A young man wearing a t-shirt with 'Volunteer' written on the back taking a photo of a group of people

Photo by ray sangga kusuma on Unsplash

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Recruit and manage young people to volunteer for your heritage organisation online

Red topped mushroom in woodland

Photo by Geranimo on Unsplash

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Recruit and manage digital volunteers to deliver data analysis projects

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Digital Heritage Hub is managed by Arts Marketing Association (AMA) in partnership with The Heritage Digital Consortium and The University of Leeds. It has received Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and National Lottery funding, distributed by The Heritage Fund as part of their Digital Skills for Heritage initiative. Digital Heritage Hub is free and answers small to medium sized heritage organisations most pressing and frequently asked digital questions.