We are (preliminary) planning a workshop on 3rd of May at Menstad ungdomsskole in Skien to demonstrate the Volunteer Portal to invited members from the Telemark Botanical Society.
Agenda:
17:30 Presentation of the Volunteer Portal and how UiO: Natural History Museum in Oslo are working on digitizing the herbarium collections (Emily Oswald)
17:40 Information about digitization of herbarium specimens at the Natural History Museum in Oslo (Bjørn Petter Løfall)
18:00 Demonstration and detailed step-by-step instructions for creating a user account and using the Volunteer Portal (Christian Svindseth)
18:15 Questions and discussion.
18:30 Hands-on practical exercise and guidance on using the Volunteer Portal.
19:30 Wrap-up
Forslag til agenda (in Norwegian):
17:30 Presentasjon av dugnadsportalen og hvordan UiO: Naturhistorisk museum i Oslo arbeider med digitalisering av samlingene (Emily Oswald)
17:40 Informasjon om masse-digitalisering av herbarieark ved Naturhistorisk museum i Oslo (Bjørn Petter Løfall)
18:00 Demonstrasjon og grundig gjennomgang av dugnadsportalen og veilednings-manualen (Christian Svindseth)
18:15 Spørsmål og diskusjon.
18:30 Praktisk demonstrasjon og veiledning i bruk av dugnadsportalen.
19:30 Avsluttning
The Cultural Heritage Mediascapes project will deepen our understanding of how digitization and participatory models are transforming knowledge practices in museums and archives. The Mediascapes start-up meeting was in September 2016 and the project will continue through to the end of 2018.
http://www.uv.uio.no/iped/english/research/projects/mediascapes/
http://www.gbif.no/news/2016/mediascapes-startup.html
Read more about the launch of the early prototype Volunteer Portal (in June 2014) here:
https://dagendresen.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/natural-history-citizen-science-crowdsourcing/