Title
Fostering Community Engagement Through Datathon Events: The Archives Unleashed Experience
Abstract
This article explores the impact that a series of Archives Unleashed datathon events have had on community engagement both within the web archiving field, and more specifically, on the professional practices of attendees. We present results from surveyed datathon participants, in addition to related evidence from our events, to discuss how our participants saw the datathons as dramatically impacting both their professional practices as well as the broader web archiving community. Drawing on and adapting two leading community engagement models, we combine them to introduce a new understanding of how to build and engage users in an open-source digital humanities project. Our model illustrates both the activities undertaken by our project as well as the related impact they have on the field. The model can be broadly applied to other digital humanities projects seeking to engage their communities.
Year
Venue
DocType
2021
DIGITAL HUMANITIES QUARTERLY
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
1
1938-4122
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samantha Fritz100.34
Ian Milligan200.34
Nick Ruest300.34
Jimmy Lin44800376.93