Crowdsourcing in History. New participatory and inclusive method- ological challenges for research in History in Spain (CrowdHistory) DH2023 COLLABORATION AS OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES ORGANIZATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ AUSTRIA, 10-14 JULY 2023. Credits Scientific Publications The main objective of CrowdHistory project is to identify, analyse, test and standardise methodological practices of citizen participa- tion in Spanish R&D projects from the per- spective of Digital Humanities, both within and outside the academic field. by PhD. Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho - Digital Humanities responsible at Medialab UGR (Universidad de Granada- Spain) and tenure Track position at Contemporary History Department, UGR. lbocanegra@ugr.es | @Lidia_Bocanegra THE PROJECT AIM CROWDHISTORY METHODOLOGY To achieve the proposed objectives, CrowdHistory implements a four-phase methodology as follow: - Phase 1 - Detection of research projects in history that use public participation from citizen science. Design and structuring of a relational web database (DB), implemented through the Drupal Content Management System, version 9, PHP 7 and MariaDB 5.5. The established database (DB) allows classification parame- ters in closed lists and with free text fields, where explanatory information about the strategies of approaching the public has been added. - Phase 2 - Standardisation methodology on public participation in historical re- search. This phase will lead to first analyses and, as a result, to a first catalogu- ing of participatory processes (of citizen involvement) as well as engagement activities (public engagement). - Phase 3 - Testing and improving the methodology of public participation in his- torical research from citizen science through pilot cases. use of hybrid (physical/ digital) citizen laboratories where some of the classified participatory approach- es and techniques will be put into practice. - Phase 4 - Evaluation of the public participation and public engagement methodology and development of good practice guidelines. STATE OF THE ART The current state of research lacks scientific investigations that reflect methodologically and conceptually on public participa- tion in historical research in Spain. When we talk about public participation in research, we refer to Citizen Science (CS): this is scientific research coordinated by scientists in which ordinary people, amateur and non-professional researchers, participate in some aspect of the research (Eitzel 2017). This type of methodological research is practically new in the humanities; however, there are a discrete number of research projects that use CS that are currently underway or have already been car- ried out, which offer a suitable breeding ground with relevant data to carry out analyses in Citizen Science (Bocanegra et al. 2017). This citizen participatory aspect is one of the main characteris- tics of the Digital Humanities (DH) (Bocanegra 2020); in the last decade there has been a change in the way of doing research in the human sciences as society begins to have a participatory role during the research process; beyond being the subject of analysis to even participate in part or all stages of scientific production. This new way of doing science is strongly driven by the growing boom of web 2.0 and, within it, digital social net- works stand out as a place for interaction (Bocanegra 2020); betting on collective intelligence (Surowiecki 2004) and micro- PRELIMINARY RESULTS Currently, we have identified and classified 473 international projects that use CS through the project's web database: https://cohistoria.es/; of which 161 are Spanish initiatives or with Spanish participation. Data collection continues as new initiatives are found. An ad hoc classification has been made on the basis of two models: PPS – Public Participation Strategies and PES – Public Engagement Strategies, through which a series of participatory and public engagement activities have been i