tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962447465856397284.post3289316424674895780..comments2024-02-22T06:54:45.079+00:00Comments on Melissa Terras' Blog: Crowdsourcing Manuscript MaterialMelissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00759369628908140089noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962447465856397284.post-1019965276238670582010-03-31T07:04:59.950+01:002010-03-31T07:04:59.950+01:00The NEH-ODH here in the US has just announced fund...The NEH-ODH here in the US has just announced funding of a project very similar to yours: <a href="http://bit.ly/a12JZC" rel="nofollow">Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool</a>. The Bentham Project might want to have a chat with Sharon Leon and the folks at CHNM about that.Ben W. Brumfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363399128262210534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962447465856397284.post-58072701443664746942010-03-13T15:45:28.633+00:002010-03-13T15:45:28.633+00:00The Suda Online is also an interesting project alt...The Suda Online is also an interesting project although focussed on translation rather than transcription. http://www.stoa.org/sol/leifusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06952570470805157338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962447465856397284.post-50085394299579581372010-03-03T21:42:59.473+00:002010-03-03T21:42:59.473+00:00The Guardian's Investigate your MP's expen...The Guardian's <a href="http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Investigate your MP's expenses</a> project might be worth a look.R.K. Ammannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01627189210534680923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962447465856397284.post-13053689031078527762010-03-03T13:42:42.282+00:002010-03-03T13:42:42.282+00:00Then there's Distributed Proofreaders, which h...Then there's <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/c/" rel="nofollow">Distributed Proofreaders</a>, which has been crowdsourcing transcriptions for Project Gutenberg for years. They're not specifically focusing on manuscripts or scholarly material, and there's some debate over how well their workflow operates, but they're definitely a group to consider in this area.John Mark Ockerbloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798089462412042209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962447465856397284.post-52033341853910660592010-03-03T13:14:25.084+00:002010-03-03T13:14:25.084+00:00Ancestry also have a major remote indexing effort,...Ancestry also have a major remote indexing effort, the <a href="http://landing.ancestry.com/wap/learnmore.aspx" rel="nofollow">World Archives Project</a> (current projects are <a href="http://community.ancestry.com/wap/dashboard.aspx" rel="nofollow">listed here</a>. Interestingly, when I was working for West Yorkshire Archive Service, our local volunteers told us they found the randomised chunks of transcription offered up by projects like Ancestry and LDS to be too small - they wanted larger projects, directly relevant to them (ie related to a place they knew) to get 'stuck into'.ammehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14815034198295785369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-962447465856397284.post-88823426221816917442010-03-03T02:42:24.267+00:002010-03-03T02:42:24.267+00:00Thank you so much for this list, Melissa. I'v...Thank you so much for this list, Melissa. I've been following these sorts of projects for a while, but several of them were entirely new to me!<br /><br />Probably the largest, most important crowdsourced transcription project is the LDS Church's <a href="http://indexing.familysearch.org/newuser/nuhome.jsf" rel="nofollow">FamilySearch Indexing</a>. They've done an impressive job of developing custom software for digitizing structured, hand-written data, and have completed digitization of the entire 1900 United States Census, the 1895 Argentina Census, and more. I <a href="http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2007/05/familysearch-indexer-review.html" rel="nofollow">reviewed an early version of the transcription application on my blog</a>, and the Ancestry Insider put together a <a href="http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/07/familysearch-support.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AncestryInsider+%28The+Ancestry+Insider%29&utm_content=Google+Reader" rel="nofollow">fascinating article</a> on the mixture of staff and volunteers who do customer support for both the digitization applications and the corresponding databases.<br /><br />A couple of other collaborative transcription systems which I neglected in my earlier email are Chris Wehner's <a href="http://soldierstudies.org/" rel="nofollow">SoldierStudies.org</a> (my review <a href="http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2008/01/similar-projects-soldierstudiesorg.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>) and the IATH Manuscript Transcription Database (now offline; my review <a href="http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2008/04/review-iath-manuscript-transcription.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>).Ben W. Brumfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363399128262210534noreply@blogger.com