The workers of Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s on-demand micro-task platform, say they have encountered mutilated bodies, graphic videos of botched surgeries, and what appeared to be child pornography. They say they have been asked  to transcribe Social Security numbers and other personal data. Sometimes their temporary…

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Crowdsourcing platform for full text transcription and tagging. https://crowd.loc.gov - GitHub - LibraryOfCongress/concordia: Crowdsourcing platform for full text transcription and tagging. https:/...

TypeWright is a crowd-source correction tool available through 18thConnect. Again, the eMOP data set consists of EEBO and ECCO documents. TypeWright allows multiple users to see those EEBO and ECCO page images along with the OCR transcriptions of those pages in order to correct the transcriptions, collaboratively or alone. Once a user, or group of users has corrected an entire

Hired through an online gig economy platform, workers unknowingly helped Google improve its artificial intelligence military-targeting software.

The Getty’s digital art history team shares what they learned from a recent project to transcribe art historical letters.

Engagement is a positive psychological state that is linked with a range of beneficial individual and organizational outcomes. However, the factors associated with volunteer engagement have rarely been examined. Data from 1064 volunteers of a wildlife charity in the United Kingdom revealed that both task- and emotion-oriented organizational support were positively related to volunteer engagement, and volunteer engagement was positively related to volunteer happiness and perceived social worth and negatively related to intent to leave the voluntary organization. Consistent with theory, engagement acted as a mediator between these factors. The implications for future research and the relevance of the findings for voluntary organizations are discussed.

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The Smithsonian Transcription Center creates indexed, searchable text by means of crowdsourcing…or as Meghan Ferriter, project coordinator at the TC describes it, “harnessing the endless curiosity and goodwill of the public.” As of the end of the current fiscal year, 7,060 volunteers at the TC have transcribed 208,659 pages. The scope, planning and execution of the […]

The state asked residents for documents from the Civil War and expected a few hundred. It got 33,000.

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