The video of the crowdsourcing panel at IMLS WebWise is online, so I thought I'd post my talk. Like anyone who's created a transcript of their own unscripted remarks, I recommend watching the video. (My bit starts at 6:00, though all the speakers were excellent. Full-screening will hide the slides.) Nevertheless, I've added hyperlinks to the transcript and interpolated the … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing at IMLS WebWise 2012
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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
A Developer Goes to AHA2012
Last Sunday I returned from the 2012 meeting of the American Historical Association. Although I have attended my share of conferences and unconferences--from Lone Star Ruby Con to Dreamforce and Texas State Historical Association to Museum Computer Network--I'd never attended one of the big mid-year academic conferences before. The experience was strange but … [Read more...] about A Developer Goes to AHA2012
Crowdsourcing Transcription at MCN 2011
MCN2011 Crowdsourcing Transcription View more presentations from benwbrum. 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 FamilySearch Indexing Facebook Page BYU Historic … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing Transcription at MCN 2011
Crowdsourcing and Variant Digital Editions
Writing at the JISC Digitization Blog, Alastair Dunning warns of "problems with crowdsourcing having the ability to create multiple editions." For example, the much-lauded Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) are now beginning to appear on many different digital platforms. ProQuest currently hold a licence that allows users to … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing and Variant Digital Editions