There's also Scribe, developed by NYPL and Zooniverse: http://scribeproject.github.io/ On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Does anybody here have knowledge or experience regarding crowdsourcing > transcription services? > > Some of my day-to-day work revolves around a thing affectionately called > the Catholic Portal. [1] The Portal is an alliance of members who provide > access to rare an infrequently held materials of a Catholic nature. Many of > our member organizations are tiny, really tiny, and consequently they do > not have very many fiscal resources. On the other hand, they are very rich > is primary source materials. As these materials get digitized, there is a > need/desire to transcribe them. (OCR will not be an option.) > > I was wondering, do any of you know of any services supporting the > crowdsources of transcriptions, or maybe there is a piece of (open source) > software allowing me to publicize things to transcribed, and then allowing > somebody to actually do the work? > > [1] Portal - http://catholicresearch.net > > — > Eric Morgan >