I agree with Thomas's logic, if not the maths (surely $2,000?)
I was going to do a few myself but it looks like comments have been disabled on the Flickr images?
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From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Thomas Krichel [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 December 2015 23:17
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Wine Loving Developer at University of California, Davis
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> **PROJECT DETAILS**
> The UC Davis University Library is launching a project to digitize the
> [Amerine wine label collection](https://www.flickr.com/photos/brantley/sets/72
> 157655817440104/with/21116552632/)
Some look like hard to read.
> and engage the public to transcribe the information contained on the
> labels and associated annotations.
This may take a long time. I suggest rather than doing that, take
somebody in a low-income country who speaks French, say, and who will
type all the data in. That way you get consistency in the data. I
live in Siberia, I can find somebody there. Once this data is in a
simple text file, you can use in-house staff to attach it to the
label images in your systems.
Crowdsource sounds cool, but for 4000 label it makes no sense.
If the typist gets $10/h, and gets 20 labels done in 1h, we
are talking $200. The visit you are planning for your developer
will cost that much.
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Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
skype:thomaskrichel
