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| Members of the Industry Advisory Panel meet with scholars and Historypin team at CESTA. |
We officially kicked off the Crowdsourcing for Humanities Research project at Stanford University the week of September 10, 2012.
The advance team from Historypin included myself; Nick Stanhope, We Are What We Do CEO; and Mark Frost, We Are What We Do CTO. We met with our colleagues on the Stanford side of the project in three days of meetings to officially begin work together, though we had reached many landmarks together already. These included:
With all of that already under our belt, the Stanford Summit meetings were scheduled to get the research underway. Our first meeting involved several hours revolving around logistics, project management, and budget and finance details at Stanford. Because of the scope of the 2 years of research plus close to a year of dissemination, reviewing the plans we had laid out in our grant proposal for working together and ironing out the finer details is of course an incredibly important first step.
- working together on exploratory and experimental projects that were nominally or internally funded
- being graciously invited to submit a proposal to the Mellon Foundation
- spending 6 months on the grant proposal, research and planning with detailed questions and guidance from out team at Mellon
- once funded (woohoo!), we did more in depth technology planning to prepare the Historypin database and backend for the crowdsourcing projects we had proposed
- we dedicated development resources over the summer to executing these initial changes to the database, which we'll summarize in another post
With all of that already under our belt, the Stanford Summit meetings were scheduled to get the research underway. Our first meeting involved several hours revolving around logistics, project management, and budget and finance details at Stanford. Because of the scope of the 2 years of research plus close to a year of dissemination, reviewing the plans we had laid out in our grant proposal for working together and ironing out the finer details is of course an incredibly important first step.
We then spent about two days digging into the details of the three projects with each of the research teams and then we brought in our Industry Advisory Panel to meet with us to explore the research questions related to each of the three projects.
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| Jon Christensen goes over some of the details of the Year of the Bay Project |
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