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
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NABPP Transcription User Survey Results
The ever-innovative North American Bird Phenology Program has just released the results of their user satisfaction survey. In addition to offering kudos to the NABPP for pleasing its users--who had transcribed 346,786 species observation cards as of November--I'd like to highlight some of the survey results -- after all, this is the first user survey for a transcription tool … [Read more...] about NABPP Transcription User Survey Results
Facebook versus Twitter for Crowdsourcing Document Transcription
Last week, I posted a new document to FromThePage and inadvertently conducted a little experiment on how to publicize crowdsourcing. Sometime in the early 1970s, my uncle was on a hunting trip when he was driven into an old, abandoned building by a thunderstorm. While waiting for the weather to moderate, he found a few old documents -- two envelopes bearing Confederate … [Read more...] about Facebook versus Twitter for Crowdsourcing Document Transcription
Collaborative Transcription as Crowdsourcing
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