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Crowdsourced Transcription Sarah Allen & Jason Shen Social Media Mtg 8/13/2013

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Discovering secrets hidden inside our collections that will illuminate our history and our world

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Started with a few thousand documents contributed from AAA, SIA, NMNH, NMAH-Archives and others. Early focus has been on full-text transcription of handwritten letters, diaries, manuscripts Already have hundreds of volunteers who have made thousands of transcription edits in the past few weeks. Early progress:

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Botany US Herbarium has 5M preserved plant specimens - and of those 1.3M have digital records Transcription of handwritten labels captures valuable metadata (collector, collection date, location, elevation) Goal of producing searchable database for researchers all around the world to access, study and explore

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This stuff (structured data)

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If it’s not digitized - it might as well not exist - Sylvia Orli (NMNH)

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>> Collection Number 2) Location 3) Date / Elevation USNM Number + Add Collector << ? ? ? 1) General Collector(s) Cultivated? ? Yes Notes

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State / Territory Notes 3) Date / Elevation District / County / Shire << ? ? ? 1) General 2) Location >> Country Precise Locality Latitude ? ? ° ‘ “ Longitude ? ° ‘ “ ? Select Country

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Collection Date Elevation (from) << ? ? ? 1) General 3) Date / Elevation 2) Location >> Elevation (to) Collection Date And/To/Or Select Modifier ? ? ? Elevation Unit Select Unit Notes Finished? Use the buttons at the bottom to Save and Finish

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Save your megaphones (for now!) Aiming for phased roll-out: 1. Live with targeted outreach 2. SI-wide Launch 3. THE WORLD

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Save your megaphones (for now!) Aiming for phased roll-out: 1. Live with targeted outreach 2. SI-wide Launch 3. THE WORLD We are here

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If you have specific groups / people you think we should talk to, let us know!

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