Crowdsourcing Transcription at MCN 2011

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
• FamilySearch Indexing Facebook Page
• BYU Historic Journals Project
• 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