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Help fill gaps in Wikipedia: our Leeds editathon

September 8, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

Exhibition co-curator Mia Ridge explains how you can help improve Wikipedia’s coverage of local lives and topics...

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These are a few of my favourite things… in the Living with Machines exhibition

August 17, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

The free Living with Machines exhibition is open now until January 2023 at Leeds City Museum. It was co-curated by our...

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DH Benelux 2022 long paper: Historic machines from ‘prams’ to ‘Parliament’: new avenues for collaborative linguistic research

May 26, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

How can a simple research question like 'what was a machine?' provide an opportunity to engage the public with our work...

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Zooniverse activity, March 2022

March 22, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

This is a copy of a post I wrote for the Zooniverse forum, sharing our progress with volunteers on our crowdsourcing...

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Bridging humanities: embedding public participation in a collaborative research project

October 26, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

Co-I Mia Ridge presented a talk, Bridging humanities: embedding public participation in a collaborative research...

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Exploring ideas for our Living with Machines exhibition

August 11, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

An exhibition has been part of our plans since we began working on the funding bid that became Living with Machines in...

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‘Platforms for People-Powered Research’

April 15, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

In April 2021, Co-Investigator Mia Ridge took part in a panel on ‘Platforms for People-Powered Research’ at...

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Learning from Zooniverse volunteers to improve crowdsourcing projects

January 15, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

Did you know that anyone can start their own crowdsourcing project through the Zooniverse Project Builder? Their...

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From prams to Parliament – what was a machine? Help us find out

December 4, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge

Help us teach computers to understand 'machines' from the perspective of people living through the Industrial...

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What is a ‘machine’ anyway? Help us describe them

October 27, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge

Help us describe machines: contribute to our lists of ‘machine’ words on Zooniverse. Our first...

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First crowdsourced datasets available

September 10, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge

Thanks to all the online volunteers who contributed to our first crowdsourcing tasks, we’ve got two results...

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Collecting annotations from British Library staff

September 23, 2019 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Like many projects working with digitised historic materials, the historians and data scientists on the project are...

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Introducing the Communities Lab

July 5, 2019 | Written by Mia Ridge

Living with Machines has big ambitions for public engagement and for impact on disciplines related to our research...

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Why is the Communities Lab asking people to read old news?

June 14, 2019 | Written by Mia Ridge

Following Ruth’s post introducing the various ‘Labs’ within the project, this is a quick summary of...

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