Video: Earl of Abergaveny project, Portland Museum
This recording has English subtitles and is 11 minutes in length.
Resources tagged with volunteers
Case study: The Courtauld’s digitisation volunteer project
Flo Carr, Associate Director, Indigo speaks to Tom Bilson, Head of Digital Media at The Courtauld about the Digitisation Volunteer Project – the largest and most diverse public inclusion project The Courtauld has ever run.
Heritage Pulse: Spotlight on Volunteering
Results from the 2023 Heritage Pulse survey on the theme of volunteering. The questions covered management, retention and the areas where heritage organisations rely on heritage most.
Digitising museum collections
This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background Boasting over 600 works of art, works include Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings by Holman Hunt and Burne-Jones, fine English glass, pewter and silver collections from the 18th Century. Being … Read more
Producing digitally creative and publicly engaging content that responds to archives
This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background CollabArchive is delivered by Nerve Centre in partnership with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland’s leading creative media arts centre and PRONI … Read more
Creating 3D digital models of museum collection objects
This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background The Portland Museum houses a diverse and fascinating collection based on the themes of maritime history, quarrying and the Portland stone industry, dinosaurs and fossils, archaeology, folklore and local … Read more
Image analysis for heritage mapping, using open-access software and remote sensing data
This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background Hidden within today’s farmland and woodland are subtle earthwork remains of archaeological sites – from prehistoric burial mounds, enclosed settlements and huts, to Roman camps, farms and roads, and … Read more
Using volunteers to improve digital accessibility practices
This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background The Heritage Access 2022 project looked at accessibility and inclusion across museums and cultural heritage sites in the UK. It is crucial that heritage organisations offer detailed, accessible, and … Read more
Recruit and manage young people to volunteer for your heritage organisation online
This is a ‘how to recruit, train, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background Heritage Trust Network is a membership organisation full of people who have delivered amazing heritage projects against all the odds and our mission is to help others do … Read more
Transcribe, geotag and research horticultural heritage collections
This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has a rare and unique collection of more than 28,000 plant nursery catalogues representing over 2,000 individual nurseries, dating back to 1612. This collection … Read more