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Another option might be Wikisource - a Wikimedia property. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page. I was at a session recently where we got to try this for transcription and it seemed to work quite well - there is support for some basic workflow. I suspect Ben Brumfield would again have some comments as he has written about using Wikisource for manuscript transcription (e.g. http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/wikisource-for-manuscript-transcription.html) - but this is a little dated now, so it may be worth looking at what Wikisource can currently do Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: [log in to unmask] Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 26 May 2017, at 14:10, Trevor Thornton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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 >>