Category: Press
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GraphCrowd featured in VT News
Virginia Tech News published a press release featuring GraphCrowd and the NIH Big Data to Knowledge grant led by Dr. Kurt Luther and Dr. T.M. Murali. This news story appeared on the home page for vt.edu and the VT College of Engineering.
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Incite featured on History@Work blog
Our Mapping the Fourth of July project and Incite software were featured in the Project Showcase of History@Work, the official blog of the National Council on Public History (NCPH).
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Interviewed for IEEE Spectrum article on crowdsourcing
IEEE Spectrum, the flagship magazine of IEEE, interviewed Dr. Luther for an article about running successful crowdsourcing campaigns. Some of his comments: After a project’s launch, says Kurt Luther, director of the Crowd Lab at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, collaborators must maintain open lines of communication and remember that contributors are real human beings. Developers,…
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Mapping the Fourth of July goes public
Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era has launched! Mapping the Fourth is a crowdsourced digital archive that explores how Americans celebrated the Fourth of July while their nation was being torn apart. It is built with Incite, a plug-in developed by the Crowd Lab for the Omeka content management system. This project,…
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Invited talk on photo sleuthing at Civil War Weekend
Dr. Luther gave an invited talk on historical photo sleuthing at Virginia Tech’s 25th Annual Civil War Weekend. His presentation was featured in a press release from Virginia Tech News.
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CrowdCrit research cited in Science
A recent article in Science cited our CrowdCrit system as an example of “the power of crowds.”