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One of the exciting turn of events for scholars has been the growing number of unpublished, hand-written documents now available on the world wide web. Textual scholars no longer have to travel to …
"Welcome to WorldMap WARP, a tool based on the MapWarper platform being developed by Entropy Free. The tool is for digitally aligning (geo-rectifying) scanned historical maps to match today’s precise maps. Visitors can browse maps others have geo-rectified or upload their own to rectify."
Some fantastic work is going on in crowdsourcing the transcription of cultural heritage collections. After some recent thinking and conversation on these projects I want to more strongly and forcef…
MCN2011 Crowdsourcing Transcription View more presentations from benwbrum . These are links to the papers, websites, and systems menti...
Website trying to match crowdsourcing projects with volunteers.
Really excellent how-to and why-to!
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I’m excited to offer this fourth interview for Insights, an occasional feature sharing interviews and conversations between National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group members and individuals involved with projects related to preservation, access and stewardship of digital […]
Tool for crowdsourcing data-entry on print tables etc.
Crowdsourcing and innovative digital projects keep the NYPL humming.
Using games to crowdsource metadata.
2010 was the year that collaborative manuscript transcription finally caught on. Back when I started work on FromThePage in 2005, I got th...
Smithsonian Voices: National Museum of Natural History Asiloid Flies (Dept. of Entomology Digging the Fossil Record (Dept. of Paleobiology) Magnetic North (Arctic Studies Center, Dept. of Anthropology) No Bones (Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology) The Paleontological Society of Washington Pyenson Lab (Dept. of Paleobiology) Recovering Voices (Dept. of Anthropology) Rogers Archaeology...