Posts Tagged crowdsourcing

March 2012 – Link Roundup

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

The link roundup post is back! Take a look for information about storage, crowdsourcing, digital archives and more.

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Have you got photos of our archives that you’d like to share?

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Have you visited our reading rooms to view original NSW State archives? Did you take photos of the records? Add your photos of documents from the official NSW State archives collection to our new Flickr Group called Archives2Share NSW. We’re trying a crowdsourcing  experiment, tell your friends! The idea of this new Flickr group is to [...]

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Ahoy there! Oldweather.org uses Crowdsourcing to transcribe archives and support scientific and historical research

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

As part of an exciting new Crowdsourcing project Oldweather.org is asking members of the public to help transcribe information in the naval logbooks of Royal Navy warships from the WW1 era.

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Crowdsourcing for Archives and Libraries

Posted on July 7, 2010 by

“There is huge potential for libraries to harness digital volunteers. Libraries need to give up ‘power and control’ thinking and look to freedom instead. Harriet Rubin, business publisher and author talking about success says “Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash”"

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Making our digital nation [a YouTube video]

Posted on June 16, 2010 by

Rose Holley talks about digital volunteers and the amazing things they are achieving. She also speaks about the innovative crowdsourcing projects at the National Library of Australia.

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