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Transcribing the Past: Crowdsourcing Transcription of Civil War Manuscripts

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  • Jacquelyn Slater Reese (University of Oklahoma)

Abstract

Libraries and archives are using crowdsourcing in various ways. From entering data to transcribing newspapers, it is a tool to engage users while accomplishing a goal for an organization. Crowdsourcing’s many benefits and challenges should be weighed when considering this technique. This article describes the planning, execution, and lessons learned from a grant-funded crowdsourced project at the University of Oklahoma to transcribe a diary and letters in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the US Civil War

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Reese, J. S., (2016) “Transcribing the Past: Crowdsourcing Transcription of Civil War Manuscripts”, Archival Issues 37(2), 59–74. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.11019

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2016-01-01

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