The document provides an overview of crowdsourced transcription, focusing on converting handwritten documents into machine-readable text through public participation. It highlights the various motivations for different audiences, such as researchers for study and curators for organization, and mentions the use of wiki-like markup to enhance engagement. Additionally, it discusses applications in diverse fields including natural history, genealogy, and climate change.

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