crowdsourced transcription landscape
DESCRIPTION
This is a review of the Transcription projects outside of the Smithsonian. This presentation is not comprehensive. It focuses on looking at the breath of user experience choices for engaging with volunteers.TRANSCRIPT
Crowdsourced Transcriptionan overview of the landscape
Turning hand-written documents into machine-readable text
similarities and contrast
Purpose
Prose Transcription
Digital Record Creation
Data Identification, “Indexing”
members of the public to learn & contribute
researchers to study and discover
curators to organize and document
different audiences, different motivations
volunteer experience
volunteer experience
Prose Transcription
Improve Discoverability
Publication of authoritative transcriptions
Audience Engagement
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Digital Record Creation
Natural History Specimens
Indexing
Geneology
Climate Change
Restaurant Food and Prices
Mammal Identification
And much more to learn...
from OCR proof-reading
other crowdsourcing efforts
Fun and Games