http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/10/12/crowdsourcing-and-open-access/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/10/12/crowdsourcing-and-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-55730 Nick - Supaproofread Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:11:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/10/12/crowdsourcing-and-open-access/#comment-55730 I think this is a great idea, but you could be looking at a sizeable project of having staff to sort and proofread the texts in each student library of the US. This would take some real persuation to colleges and professors. I think this is a great idea, but you could be looking at a sizeable project of having staff to sort and proofread the texts in each student library of the US. This would take some real persuation to colleges and professors.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/10/12/crowdsourcing-and-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-22181 Gavin Baker Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:41:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/10/12/crowdsourcing-and-open-access/#comment-22181 Distributed Proofreaders has open source Web-based software to facilitate the task of crowdsourced OCR. So far they've done 11,000 texts in several different languages. Unfortunately, the version they host on their Web site is only available to OCR texts destined for Project Gutenberg, i.e. books in the public domain. But the software is available, and someone could install it and run their own instance, to crowdsource OCR whatever they like. http://www.pgdp.net/ Distributed Proofreaders has open source Web-based software to facilitate the task of crowdsourced OCR. So far they’ve done 11,000 texts in several different languages. Unfortunately, the version they host on their Web site is only available to OCR texts destined for Project Gutenberg, i.e. books in the public domain. But the software is available, and someone could install it and run their own instance, to crowdsource OCR whatever they like. http://www.pgdp.net/

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/10/12/crowdsourcing-and-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-22174 Klaus Graf Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:11:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/10/12/crowdsourcing-and-open-access/#comment-22174 That's a great idea. We have in the German Wikisource a lot of legal PD texts (laws and court decisions) at: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kategorie:Rechtswissenschaft That’s a great idea. We have in the German Wikisource a lot of legal PD texts (laws and court decisions) at:
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kategorie:Rechtswissenschaft

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