MicroPasts

A crowdsourcing initiative to make archaeological archives and artefacts digitally accessible. Originally an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, Micropasts began in 2014 as a collaboration between the British Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology.  Since then a variety of transcription and photomasking projects have been undertaken in collaboration with a number of learned societies and museums.

Notable projects include transcription of the British Museum's Bronze Age Index; transcription of the Egypt Exploration Society's Amarna Object Cards; transcription of Flinders and Hilda Petrie's diaries; photomasking of artefacts for 3D images/prints from the collections of the British Museum, the Petrie Museum, the Mary Rose Trust, and the Palestine Exploration Fund.

Further reading:
Bonacchi, C. et al. 2014. Crowd-sourced Archaeological Research: The MicroPasts Project. Archaeology International 17, pp.61–68. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai.1705

Website: www.crowdsourced.micropasts.org
Blog: www.research.micropasts.org
Twitter: @MicroPasts