crowdsourcing – THATCamp CHNM 2008 https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org The Humanities And Technology Camp Fri, 06 Mar 2020 19:24:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Crowdsourcing Transcriptions https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/23/crowdsourcing-transcriptions/ https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/23/crowdsourcing-transcriptions/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 01:46:22 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=37

The other idea I would love to talk about is the idea of distributed document transcription as I explain it in my blog post: Archival Transcriptions: for the public, by the public.  While I do love what reCaptcha does at the word level and Footnote.com does with locations, names and dates – I still think there is a place for a centralized web-based system where digitized documents can be uploaded and then transcribed & verified by volunteers. I think this would be especially powerful for smaller archives.

I would love to hash out this idea with others as well as learn what other projects like this might already exist.

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