This post originally appeared on Cody Carpenter’s blog. It’s part 1 in a four-part series examining crowdsourcing in digital cultural heritage work. Part 1: What is Crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing can be applied to anything from this jigsaw to an archive of…
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Lab/Building Block Unit C: Crowdsourcing
Your assignment is to participate in and reflect on a history or cultural heritage crowd-sourcing project. Most of these are transcription projects. 1. Choose one of the following projects: Smithsonian Freedman’s Bureau Project Library of Congress Clara Barton papers Zooniverse’s…