Crowdsourcing Natural History Archives: Tools for Extracting Transcriptions and Data

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v12i0.6646

Palabras clave:

Crowdsourcing, manuscript transcription, field notes, natural history

Resumen

This paper is a survey of the landscape of current, successful, and innovative platforms for extracting full text transcriptions and structured data using crowdsourcing as a tool. Archival manuscript items are the key case studies reviewed to develop a set of tools for the Biodiversity Heritage Library for use in enhancing access to and extraction information from items in scientific and natural history collections.

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Biografía del autor/a

  • Katherine A. Mika, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
    National Digital Stewardship Resident, Biodiveristy Heritage Library

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Publicado

2017-11-14

Número

Vol. 12 (2017)

Sección

Articles (peer-reviewed)

Licencia

Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. All articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Cómo citar

Mika, Katherine A., Joseph De Veer, and Constance Rinaldo. 2017. “Crowdsourcing Natural History Archives: Tools for Extracting Transcriptions and Data”. Biodiversity Informatics 12 (November). https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v12i0.6646.