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

Using wiki-like markup for subjects, we can see that the activity of stripping tabacco was more common on cloudy days...

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