http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6004 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6004/comment-page-1#comment-5609 Session Proposal: Crowdsourcing - THATCamp American Historical Association 2012 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:30:56 +0000 http://journal.code4lib.org/?p=6004#comment-5609 [...] Mechanical Turk or various freelancing sites?  If so, how do you ensure accuracy?  (One recent project introduced known bad data to transcripts before paying users to proofread and transcribed a [...]

]]> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6004/comment-page-1#comment-5192 Greg Lindahl Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:23:19 +0000 http://journal.code4lib.org/?p=6004#comment-5192 This brings to mind the Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders website (http://pgdp.net), which I’ve used for handwritten documents such as an early 17th century Italian dance manual. It provides a lot of support for proofreading, such as a dictionary, division of labor (multiple rounds of proofreading and formatting), and a ready population of volunteer proofreaders, including enough Italian speakers to ensure that my project was done very accurately.

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