1 Session notes
1.1 what types of human data are interesting, but difficult to collect

Everything, basically, but especially data that can be analysed
in its own right.

1.2 what kinds of services or formats could be used to entice people to produce that data

whatever it is, it needs to have a competitive or social aspect

1.3 what are some reasons why these types of services have succeeded/failed in the past

successful services need to enrich someone’s life

difficult to find motivating factor

hard to keep people coming back

takes time to build an audience

ensure it’s usable

start from an existing need/demand

have to have a way to filter out the garbage

1.3.1 Ethical issues

privacy policy may help, people seem quite open

ethical issues – who benefits? Ideally, both users and data
collector’s interests should be balanced, with an emphasis on users

be upfront and not sneaky

release data to public

don’t be like Google+ where they claim to make it beneficial to user, but actually it’s not

1.3.2 Be a member of the community
1.3.3 help users be social with each other
1.4 what existing platforms/projects could be leveraged to facilitate data collection and service provision

mix and mash: open government initiative in NZ

five stars of open access

others?

1.5 problems with volunteer crowd sourcing and gamification
1.5.1 not representative group?
2 history example

How could this idea be used to generate new data that would be
worthy of analysis to historians?

get children to record their grandparents stories

and have contests