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Crowdsourcing Transcription at MCN 2011

November 18, 2011 by Ben Brumfield

MCN2011 Crowdsourcing Transcription

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These are links to the papers, websites, and systems mentioned in my presentation at the Museum Computer Network 2011 conference.

  • Can't OCR Cursive 
    • "Toward Searchable Indexes for Handwritten Documents", Kennard and Barrett
  • Genealogy
    • FamilySearch Indexing Facebook Page
    • BYU Historic Journals Project
  • Natural Science 
    • Atlas of Living Australia Australian Museum Cicada Expedition
    • Botanical Society of the British Isles Herbaria@Home
  • Open Source/Creative Commons
    • Wikisource for Manuscript Tranascription (my review)
    • Open Genealogy Alliance (UK)
  • Libraries
    • What's on the Menu? New York Public Library
    • University of Iowa Libraries Civil War Diaries and Letters
    • North Carolina Family History Transcription Project, Government and Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina
  • Archives
    • Stadsarchief Amsterdam's Militieregisters.nl and Velehanden.nl
    • Public Records Office Victoria
  • Museums
    • San Diego Natural History Museum's Laurence Klauber Field Notes
  • Why?
    • North American Bird Phenology Program User Satisfaction Survey
    • OldWeather
    • DigitalKoot
    • North American Bird Phenology Program Top 50 Transcribers
    • North American Bird Phenology Projgram April Newsletter
    • Code4Lib Journal, "Using Amazon Mechanical Turk to Transcribe Historical Handwritten Documents
  • How will you use the transcription?
    • Transcribe Bentham
    • Julia Brumfield Diaries view of references to Irvin Harvey
    • Papers of the War Department
  • Tools
    • Wikisource/ProofreadPage (see review above)
    • FromThePage on GitHub
    • Scripto on GitHub
    • Bentham Transcription Desk on Google Code
    • Zooniverse Scribe on GitHub
    • OpenScribe on Google Code

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