‘Making such bargain’: Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced transcription.
In recent years, important research on crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage sector has been published, dealing with topics such as the quantity of contributions made by volunteers, the motivations of those who participate in such projects, the design and establishment of crowdsourcing initiatives,...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 467 - 488 |
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Sep2018
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