This is the transcript of my talk at Social Digital Scholarly Editing at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon on July 11 2013. I'm Ben Brumfield. I'm not a scholarly editor, I'm an amateur editor and professional software developer. Most of the talks that I give talk about crowdsourcing, and crowdsourcing manuscript transcription, and how to get people … [Read more...] about The Collaborative Future of Amateur Editions
Crowdsourcing + Machine Learning: Nicholas Woodward at TCDL
I was so impressed by Nicholas Woodward's presentation at TCDL this year that I asked him if I could share "Crowdsourcing + Machine Learning: Building an Application to Convert Scanned Documents to Text" on this blog. Hi. My name is Nicholas Woodward, and I am a Software Developer for the University of Texas Libraries. Ben Brumfield has been so kind as to offer me an … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing + Machine Learning: Nicholas Woodward at TCDL
Choosing Crowdsourced Transcription Platforms at SSA 2013
This is a transcript of my talk at the Society of Southwestern Archivists 2013 Annual Meeting. [Update 2013-05-28: The audio for the talk may be downloaded as an MP3.] This talk is about choosing a crowdsourced transcription platform, but "choosing" means a couple of things. "Choosing" means which, and "choosing" can mean whether-- should you do this at all?. I'd like to … [Read more...] about Choosing Crowdsourced Transcription Platforms at SSA 2013
Typologie des méthodes de contrôle de la qualité dans les projets de crowdsourcing
A translation of my 2012-03-05 post "Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription" which appeared in "Etat de l’art en matière de Crowdsourcing dans les bibliothèques numériques" by Moirez, Moreaux, and Josse (2013), reproduced for Francophone readers: «Single-track methods»: le document ne fait l’objet que d’une seule transcription (par un seul contributeur ou de façon … [Read more...] about Typologie des méthodes de contrôle de la qualité dans les projets de crowdsourcing
Itinera Nova in the World(s) of Crowdsourcing and TEI
On April 25, 2013, I presented this talk at the International Colloquium Itinera Nova in Leuven, Belgium. It was a fantastic experience, which I plan to post (and speak) more about, but I wanted to get my slides and transcript online as soon as possible. Abstract: Crowdsourcing for cultural heritage material has become increasingly popular over the last decade, but manuscript … [Read more...] about Itinera Nova in the World(s) of Crowdsourcing and TEI