{"id":2271,"date":"2012-03-16T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2014-01-14T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:27:56","slug":"crowdsourcing-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/03\/16\/crowdsourcing-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding our <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cwd\/transcripts.html\" target=\"_blank\">manuscript transcription crowdsourcing<\/a> site to include materials outside of the Civil War collections is taking longer than expected &#8212; apparently digitizing thousands of pages of <a href=\"http:\/\/collguides.lib.uiowa.edu\/?MSC0533\" target=\"_blank\">manuscript cookbooks dating from the 17th century<\/a> is not quite as straightforward as one would wish. But the scanning is finally underway, and we&#8217;re using the extra time it&#8217;s taken to investigate <a href=\"http:\/\/scripto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scripto<\/a>, a specialized tool that could help us manage our crowdsourcing workflows more efficiently. Meanwhile transcription on the Civil War materials is still going strong &#8212; we expect to receive our 10,000th submission within a month and we&#8217;re picking up new users all the time, such as Pinterest member Alicia Lea, who wrote the lovely testimonial below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2272\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/144889312981887991\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2272\" alt=\"Pinterest entry on Civil War crowdsourcing transcription\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/03\/pin.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/03\/pin.jpg 574w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/03\/pin-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinterest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding our manuscript transcription crowdsourcing site to include materials outside of the Civil War collections is taking longer than expected &#8212; apparently digitizing thousands of pages of manuscript cookbooks dating from the 17th century is not quite as straightforward as one would wish. But the scanning is finally underway, and we&#8217;re using the extra time<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/03\/16\/crowdsourcing-continued\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Crowdsourcing continued&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}