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
- 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