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

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

Screenshot of heatmap of new archaeological sites in Devon

Heatmap of new archaeological sites in Devon. Image courtesy of University of Exeter©

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Image analysis for heritage mapping, using open-access software and remote sensing data

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 shot of Torre Abbey and surrounding gardens and grounds.

Torre Abbey, Torquay, Devon. Image courtesy of Torbay Council©

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Digitising museum collections

Black and silver microphone and stand

Photo by Jukka Aalho on Unsplash

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Training digital volunteers to create podcasts

A large garden greenhouse with house plants

Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

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Transcribe, geotag and research horticultural heritage collections

Creating online promotional material

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

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Creating online promotional material

Open laptop with a computer braille reader

Photo by Elizabeth Woolner on Unsplash

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Using volunteers to improve digital accessibility practices

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

White flowers in a garden next to a stone colonnade wall

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

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Working with specialist conservation records on a custom database

Using Google Ads and Meta advertising to recruit remote volunteers

Image by Mariia Shalabaieva on Unsplash

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Using Google Ads and Meta advertising to recruit remote 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

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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.