Racial Restrictive Covenants Project - Zooniverse Training
Hi everyone! I am writing to inform you that the Racial Restrictive Covenant Project’s Zooniverse page is up and running, and ready for volunteers to contribute to the project. Zooniverse is a digital research platform that allows community members to contribute to projects like ours.
Through Zooniverse, volunteers like you will be able to help us in our search for these covenants by reading through documents that we suspect contain racially restrictive language, transcribing any racial restrictive covenants you find, and then answering a couple questions about the document. Each document takes only a few minutes to investigate, and volunteers can look through as few or as many as they desire! On our project's website you will find a Zooniverse training video that will walk you through how to navigate Zooniverse and answer the questions for each document. We will also be holding a Zooniverse training session remotely via Zoom on Monday April 4th, 2022 from 2-3pm. Anyone who is interested in volunteering though working on our Zooniverse page is welcome to join!
Below I will attach a link to our project's website and Zooniverse page. Please share this information with your friends, family, and anyone else you think might be interested in doing this remote volunteer work. We need all the help we can get! In the meantime, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns you can reach the project at wacovenants@gmail.com. Thanks for being here and for volunteering your time to help uncover these racial restrictions. We appreciate you.
-Jazzlynn (Research Associate, Racial Restrictive Covenants Project)
Link to our project's website: http://depts.washington.edu/covenants/
Link to the "volunteer" section of our projects website: https://depts.washington.edu/covenants/volunteer.shtml
Direct link to our project's Zooniverse page: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/jngregory/racial-restrictive-covenants-washington-state
Zoom invitation for April 4th Zooniverse Training Session
Time: Apr 4, 2022 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting https://washington.zoom.us/j/95019038000
Meeting ID: 950 1903 8000
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