This is a review of the Transcription projects outside of the Smithsonian. This presentation is not comprehensive. It focuses on looking at the breath of user experience choices for engaging with volunteers.

1. Crowdsourced Transcription
an overview of the landscape

2. Turning hand-written documents
into machine-readable text

3. similarities and contrast

4. Purpose
Prose Transcription
Digital Record Creation
Data Identification, “Indexing”

5. members of the
public to learn &
contribute
researchers to
study and
discover
curators to
organize and
document
different audiences, different motivations

6. volunteer experience

7. volunteer experience

8. Prose Transcription
Improve Discoverability
Publication of authoritative transcriptions
Audience Engagement

13. Using wiki-like markup for subjects, we can see that the activity of
stripping tabacco was more common on cloudy days...

17. Digital Record Creation
Natural History Specimens

29. Indexing
Geneology
Climate Change
Restaurant Food and Prices
Mammal Identification

44. And much more to learn...
from OCR proof-reading
other crowdsourcing efforts

45. Fun and Games