This is a comment I wanted to make at Neil Fraistat's "Participatory DH" session (proposal, notes) at THATCamp Leadership, but ended up having on twitter instead. Much of the discussion in the first half of the session focused on the qualitative difference between the activities we ask amateurs to do and the activities performed by scholars. One concern voiced was that … [Read more...] about A Gresham's Law for Crowdsourcing and Scholarship?
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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
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
Jens Brokfeld's Thesis on Crowdsourced Transcription
Although the field of transcription tools has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years, most academic publications on the topic focus on a single project and the lessons that project can teach. While those provide invaluable advice on how to run crowdsourcing projects, they do not lend much help to memory professionals trying to decide which tools to … [Read more...] about Jens Brokfeld's Thesis on Crowdsourced Transcription
Mosman 1914-1918 on FromThePage
The Mosman community in New South Wales is preparing for the centennial of World War One, and as part of this project they've launched mosman1914-1918.net: "Doing our bit, Mosman 1914–1918". The project describes itself as "an innovative online resource to collect and display information about the wartime experiences of local service people," and includes scan-a-thons, … [Read more...] about Mosman 1914-1918 on FromThePage