Friday, May 11, 2018

Smithsonian Digital Volunteers


In June 2013 The Smithsonian Institute started a Digital Volunteers: Transcription Center Program to make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible. The program consists of scanning handwritten documents from the 19th century or earlier and  transcribing them; the goal is to crowdsource  the transcription of material that a computer cannot decipher. 
This is an example of the work: the first image is a letter from Georgia O´Keeffe and the second is a transcription of that letter

And these are the steps of the process:
The program offers volunteers projects in different themes, such as Biodiverse Planet  (which consists of transcribing specimen labels and field notebooks), Mysteries of the Universe ( which covers astronomy and astrophysics), historical contributions of women in science, technology and art...
Click here to read more about this
Will you volunteer? 


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