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Making molehills out of mountains: crowdsourcing digital access to natural history collections

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posted on 2014-06-26, 13:23 authored by Laurence LivermoreLaurence Livermore, Vincent S. Smith, John Tweddle

Presentation given at SPNHC 2014.

 

The development of cheap mass imaging techniques has made transcription the bottleneck in digitising natural history collections. Internet crowdsourcing has been successfully used across different scientific communities and has the potential to become an effective method for transcribing our natural history data. We review current crowdsourcing platforms and communities, analyse their efficacy and discuss their potential role in improving digital access to natural history collections worldwide.

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