Crowd- and Community-fuelled Archaeological Research

该项目不仅将使用“众包”方法，使学术界和其他考古社区能够共同制作创新的开放数据集，而且还将开创一种新的方法来共同设计和众筹后续研究。长期以来，考古学一直成功地激起了专业从业人员、志愿者协会和广大公众的兴趣。这些不同的考古爱好者有时会在考古实地工作中进行合作，通过博物馆展览或其他参与活动进行互动，但在挖掘战壕或画廊案例的边缘之外，他们很少合作开发考古知识或设计新的研究议程。该项目在三个有前途的领域探索了这种未开发的潜力：考古档案的转录，低成本的3D对象建模和“后续”研究。我们希望加深两个主要的伦敦研究机构，大英博物馆（BM）和伦敦大学学院（UCL）之间的现有联系，以及与（a）英国的便携式文物计划（PAS）和（B）从弗林德斯皮特里，凯瑟琳凯尼恩和同事在地中海东部的早期发掘一些考古学最著名的档案和对象收藏相关的几个成熟的社区。这两条线利用了伦敦本身相当多的专业知识，遗产资产和兴趣，但每一个也提供了更广泛的国家或国际影响力，开辟了机会，探索如何最好地融合各自的研究投入预先存在的在线社区的兴趣，并进一步'人群'的潜在贡献者在世界各地。我们将一起众包硬拷贝档案的转录，并率先从普通照片中构建大量3D人工制品模型。通过这些努力聚集起来的现有社区、新贡献者和传统学者也将集体设计有吸引力的后续项目，这些项目从长远来看可能通过个别小额但集体重要的在线捐款获得资金。

This project will not only use 'crowd-sourcing' methods to enable academics and other archaeological communities to co-produce innovative open datasets, but it will also pioneer a novel approach to co-designing and crowd-funding follow-up research. Archaeology has long been successful in piquing the interest of professional practitioners, volunteer societies and the wider public. These different archaeological enthusiasts do sometimes collaborate over archaeological fieldwork, interact via museum exhibitions or interact over other engagement activities, but beyond the edge of the excavation trench or the gallery case, they rarely cooperate on developing archaeological knowledge or on designing new research agendas. This project explores this untapped potential in three promising areas: transcription of archaeological archives, low-cost 3D object modelling and 'follow-up' research. We want to deepen existing links between two major London research institutions, the British Museum (BM) and University College London (UCL), and several well-established communities associated with (a) the UK's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and (b) some of archaeology's most famous archival and object collections from Flinders Petrie, Kathleen Kenyon and colleagues' early excavations in the eastern Mediterranean. These two strands capitalise on considerable expertise, heritage assets and interest within London itself, but each also offers wider national or international reach, opening up opportunities to explore how best to blend the respective research inputs of pre-existing online communities of interest, and a further 'crowd' of potential contributors worldwide. Together, we will crowd-source the transcription of hard copy archives and pioneer the construction of large numbers of 3D artefact models from ordinary photographs. The existing communities, new contributors and traditional academics brought together by these efforts will collectively also design attractive follow-up projects that might, over the longer term, be financed via individually small but collectively important online donations.