The aim of the Cultural Heritage Mediascapes project is to deepen our understanding of how digitization and participatory models are transforming knowledge practices in museums and archives.
http://www.uv.uio.no/iped/english/research/projects/mediascapes/
GBIF Norway contributes to Mediascapes with a citizen science portal for the transcription (and data annotations) for specimens in the Norwegian Natural History herbarium collections - with focus on specimens held by the Norwegian University Museums.
Seminar slides: Crowdsourcing at the UiO Natural History Museum in Oslo (CC-BY GBIF Norway)
Read more about the launch of the transcription portal (in June 2014) here:
https://dagendresen.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/natural-history-citizen-science-crowdsourcing/
