The video of the crowdsourcing panel at IMLS WebWise is online, so I thought I'd post my talk. Like anyone who's created a transcript of their own unscripted remarks, I recommend watching the video. (My bit starts at 6:00, though all the speakers were excellent. Full-screening will hide the slides.) Nevertheless, I've added hyperlinks to the transcript and interpolated the … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing at IMLS WebWise 2012
Archives for March 2012
Jumping In With Both Feet
Although I didn't know it at the time, since I began work on FromThePage in 2005 I've had one toe in the digital humanities community. I've worked on FromThePage and I've blogged about crowdsourced manuscript transcription. I've met some smart, friendly people doing fascinating things and I've even taught some of them the magic of regular expressions. But I've … [Read more...] about Jumping In With Both Feet
Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription
Whenever I talk about crowd-sourced transcription--actually whenever I talk about crowdsourced anything--the first question people ask is about accuracy. Nobody trusts the public add to an institution's data/meta-data, nor especially to correct it. However, quality control over data entry is a well-explored problem, and while I'm not familiar with the literature from industry … [Read more...] about Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription
We Get Press!
Crowdsourced transcription projects--and FromThePage in particular--have gotten some really nice press in the last few weeks. Konrad Lawson posted an excellent review of Scripto and FromThePage on the ProfHacker blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education: Crowdsourcing Transcription: FromThePage and Scripto. Francine Diep wrote a great article on the phenomenon at Innovation … [Read more...] about We Get Press!