Скачать или смотреть NHM SciFri Seminar - Geoffrey Belknap - Science Gossip (April 2015)

Friday 24 Apr, 4.30pm
Neil Chalmers Seminar Room

Geoffrey Belknap, University of Leicester & NHM Centre for Arts and Humanities Research (CAHR)

"Illustrating the Natural World. From Victorian Periodicals to Citizen Science"

The practice of illustrating Victorian scientific periodicals was widespread throughout the century. Yet the value, meaning and intent of these illustrations as objects of scientific evidence within an essential site of scientific communication is little understood. Focusing on the particular genre of the natural history journal between 1840-1890, this talk will evaluate the role of illustrations in offering an access point for the amateur naturalists to participate within the knowledge community of the Victorian periodical. It will then connect this research to the modern concerns of Citizen Science, by highlighting how team members on the Constructing Scientific Communities Project have developed – in collaboration with zooniverse.org – the platform www.sciencegossip.org to crowd source the production of metadata for illustrations in Victorian periodicals.

Talk hosted by Adrian Glover, Natural History Museum, London.