From a NY Times article by Patricia Cohen:
The painfully slow task of the transcription often hard-to - decipher handwritten documents on stories lead player - not to mention has a lack of funds - meant that most original works of one of a handful of scholars are only seen and total public kept out of reach. After more than five decades just over which were while starts working on Thomas Jefferson's papers, 1943, not likely until around 2025 finished half of James Madison's paper transcribed and published.
Now scientists behind the Bentham project think can better way come: crowd-sourcing.
Starting this fall, the editors have, if not the wisdom of the crowd, then at least his fingers Yes, that means inviting someone - you that - some to help transcribe the 40,000 unpublished manuscripts from University College's collection that have been scanned and put online. Round in the four months since this Wikipedia style started experiment, 350 users edited 435 transcripts.
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"It's pretty amazing," said Sharon Leon a historian at George Mason University, crowd-sourcing's potential. Mrs. Leon recently received a grant of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a free digital tool design a plug-in - that any archive or library could use open transcription of the public.
55,000 Unpublished documents work out with Mrs. Leon and their employees the early war Department, the United States collected, copied and reconstructed in the last dozen year.
See also: Sharon Leon's homepage
See also: Center for history and new media (George Mason University)
See also: OldWeather.org and a list
Two crowdsourced transcription projects from United Kingdom
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