Project Director Brendon Wilkins gives a personal viewpoint over on his blog at www.diggingthedirt.com, explaining some of the background to Flag Fen Lives – the first European experiment in crowdfunding and crowdsourcing an archaeological excavation.
“As well as the important research and investigation of the prehistoric archaeology at Flag Fen, the project will also be studied by Public Archaeologists from UCL, who will coordinate interviews and questionnaires with participants and measure the impact of our project online.
I’m passionate about crowdfunding Flag Fen Lives, and delighted to have these guys on board so we can learn as much about this new approach as possible (we want to be doing it for years to come!). The DV team will be presenting the project at the European Association of Archaeologists annual conference in Helsinki in September – with publication in an academic journal soon after.
Hope you can join us (either at Flag Fen or in Helsinki!).
All the best,
Brendon”
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Written by Brendon Wilkins
As Founder and Co-CEO of DigVentures, Brendon brings together two decades of commercial archaeology experience with his expertise in digital innovation for archaeological fieldwork, public participation, and social impact evaluation. With a consistent research and publication record, his PhD (‘Digging the Crowd: the future of archaeology in the digital and collaborative economy’) explores new business and social impact models that position citizen science as a response to economic and climatic challenges facing humanity. Brendon steers the ship of DV’s fieldwork, evaluation and ‘Deep Time’, our crowdscience platform training citizens to search Earth Observation Data for cultural and natural heritage. Brendon’s signature laugh lights up every room, especially when he sneaks onto the turntables for a cheeky DJ set!
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