Last night, the Zooniverse folks announced their latest venture: Ancient Lives, which invites the public to help analyze the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. The transcription tool meets the high standards we now expect from the team who designed Old Weather, but the project immediately stirred some controversy because of its terms of use: Sean is referring to this section of the … [Read more...] about Can a Closed Crowdsourcing Project Succeed?
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Crowdsourcing and Variant Digital Editions
Writing at the JISC Digitization Blog, Alastair Dunning warns of "problems with crowdsourcing having the ability to create multiple editions." For example, the much-lauded Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) are now beginning to appear on many different digital platforms. ProQuest currently hold a licence that allows users to … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing and Variant Digital Editions