With much of the world being asked to stay in and prevent the spread of the coronavirus and many people unable to do their usual activities, there’s a surge of interest in crowdsourcing from folk in museums, libraries, archives, galleries, academics and others.

This is the moment many of us already working in crowdsourcing have dreamed of, but it…[Read more]

Welcome to the CSDH-SCHN 2020: Building Community Online conference collection. Over the next month, you’ll see a lot of action in this group, as presenters prepare their files for viewing by conference attendees. The conference takes place online from June 1-5, 2020. If you like what you see here, you can head on over to our Eventbrite page and…[Read more]

Call for book sprint participants, April 2020, ‘From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation: the state of the art in collaboration, access, and inclusion for cultural heritage institutions’.

I’m excited to announce that we – Mia Ridge (British Library), Meghan Ferriter (Library of Congress) and Sam Blickhan (Zooniverse) – have been…[Read more]

Crowdsourcing Friends,

I’m happy to share the release of Scripto for Omeka S 1.0. Many of you will be familiar with Scripto for Omeka Classic, which launched in 2011 to bring transcription capabilities to those using Omeka Classic to host their collections materials.

Scripto for Omeka S offers the ability to host many transcription or…[Read more]

I recently posted a review of the major developments I saw in crowdsourced transcription during the 2020s, and was wondering what other practitioners’ opinions were about what the 2020s might bring both in transcription and other crowdsourcing tasks.

In particular, I’m curious what other people see as the big challenges to be addressed or the…[Read more]