Ben Brumfield

Ben Brumfield founded the cultural heritage crowdsourcing platform FromThePage in 2005 and has been covering developments within crowdsourced manuscript transcription since 2007. Institutions like Stanford University Archives and the British Library have used the system to collaborate with volunteer communities to transform scanned historic documents into machine-readable, human-accessible electronic texts. Over the past decade, FromThePage has been used by libraries, archives, and museums to transcribe material ranging from Arabic scientific manuscripts to Aztec codices.

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The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription

Posted by Ben Brumfield | Jan 13, 2020 | cocreation, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration

Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as “the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on.” This seems like a good time to...

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