Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BibTeX_Export Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource DIY History and Participatory Archives Type The nature or genre of the resource Conference Paper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Paul A Soderdahl Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Language A language of the resource eng Zotero Title DIY History and Participatory Archives Item Type Conference Paper Author Paul A Soderdahl Place Iowa City, Iowa Pages 32 slides Date 2014 Language eng Abstract Note DIY History is the University of Iowa Libraries' crowdsourcing initiative with five collections: Civil War Diaries and Letters, Szathmary Cookbooks and Manuscripts, Iowa Women's Lives: Letters and Diaries, Building the Transcontinental Railroad, and Nile Kinnick. This presentation describes the DIY History project for crowdsourcing transcriptions, as well as participatory archives, and citizen science and citizen scholars. Proceedings Title Rotary Club of Iowa City A.M. Library and Information Science