Yesterday morning I saw Derek Powazek present on crowdsourcing -- user-generated content and collaborative communities. While he covered a lot of material that (users will do unexpected things, don't exploit people, design for the "selfish user"), there was one anecdote I thought especially relevant for FromThePage. A publishing house had polled a targeted group of people to … [Read more...] about Collaborative Transcription as Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing, transcription and indexing for libraries and archives
