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
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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
Survey on Crowdsourced Transcription Tools
Via Twitter and the TEI-L mailing list, I see that Jens Brokfeld, a graduate student in Potsdam, is conducting a survey of projects using transcription tools for his thesis, “Creating Digital Editions with Crowdsourced Manuscript Transcription: A Tool Evaluation”. I encourage readers of this blog to take the survey and help advance the field. In case that your … [Read more...] about Survey on Crowdsourced Transcription Tools
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!