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After having seen a number of successful projects that solicit the contributions of the user community in significant ways, author Sharon Leon, proposes that now might be a good time to pause and...
The Papers of the War Department is a project which unites copies of the lost files in a digital archive that reconstitutes an invaluable historical resource. They're enlisting the help of...
Skeptic paper doesn’t necessarily “reject the consensus position” that humans are causing global warming. It may address a more narrow issue like ocean acidification or the carbon cycle.
With the original Civil War materials nearly completed, the libraries created a new crowdsourcing site with additional handwritten content needing transcription: cookbooks, correspondence, and...
The library staff first experimented in crowdsourcing in spring 2011, with their Civil War Diaries and Letters Transcription Project. For the project, they created DIY History - a website that...
Now, the University of Iowa Libraries has made the task exponentially easier with the launch of DIY History, a crowdsourcing initiative that allows volunteers to transcribe the Szathmary Culinary...
Thanks to the public’s voracious appetite for historic cookbooks, the University of Iowa Libraries has recently reached a new milestone for its DIY History crowdsourcing site: 30,000 pages...
Entitled "Curating the Bay: Crowdsourcing a New Environmental History," the exhibition takes risks by asking visitors to fill in the blanks rather than presenting them with a finished...
The Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive is currently processing their first round of historical material donations, and look forward to sharing them with the world. In the meantime, do...
Imagine a ghostly landscape conjured with the voices of people telling stories about their lives. Memories have their places. But they also animate our recollections of who we were in the past. The...
WMyspace employees believe that they need to tell their story to help make sure something like this doesn’t happen again. This is not about News Corp executives, analysts, or other armchair...
This article looks into microfinance and how it evolved and how the Internet is bringing it to more and more people: Microfinance — Dr. Mohammad Yunus & Grameen Bank Microlending —...
Historypin has already collected 55,000 pictures, videos and audio files since it started last year. According to Historypin CEO Nick Stanhope, it is an amazing idea that we're really most of...
Nick Stanhope is the CEO of the British non-profit behind Historypin, and he tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz the site is a new way to do something people have always done.
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All signs indicate that 2012 will be revolutionary for prior art and patent research. In addition to the two prior art crowdsourcing startups launched in 2011, there are several crowdsourcing...
This nifty infographic outlines the history of open source software, including some key milestones and datapoints.
The new website, which came online on July 4, 2012, aims to be a place where people can crowd-source Berkeley’s history by writing their own vignettes and uploading historic photos and videos. The...
A crowdsourcing initiative by the University of Iowa is looking to help people find dinner ideas from the 1600s through the 1960s by asking volunteers to transcribe hand-written recipes. The project, dubbed DIY History, was launched after the success of the university’s previous crowdsourcing initiative, which asked users to transcribe for the Civil War’s sesquicentennial.
Most libraries don’t have the resources to transcribe thousands of pages of text, but the crowdsourcing model allows anyone with an internet connection and some free time to help out, Prickman...
Bringing the future of digital publishing to the present, the Steam Patriots book apps will include engaging features of animation, diagrams, interactive maps and audio, along with social...
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