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Start date : 2010/09/08
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  • End date : Still open.
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⇳ Description Transcribe Bentham is a an award-winning participatory project based at University College London. Its aim is to engage the public in the online transcription of original and unstudied manuscript papers written by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the great philosopher and reformer. "Transcribe Bentham emerged out of initial discussions between Professor Philip Schofield, the Director of the Bentham Project, and Martin Moyle of UCL Library Services, regarding the production of a digital Bentham resource for a forthcoming Arts and Humanities Research Council funding call. Martin proposed the establishment of a resource to facilitate crowdsourced transcription of the Bentham Papers, and a potential partnership between the Bentham Project, UCL Library Services, UCL’s Centre for Digital Humanities, and the University of London Computer Centre. After an initial meeting between Professor Schofield, Martin, Dr Melissa Terras (UCL DH), and Richard Davis (ULCC), hosted by Library Services, the project consortium was formed."(About Us, official project page) ➠ Purpose Digital images of Jeremy Benthams’ published manuscripts are transcribed by volunteers to ensure long term preservation of the Philosophers works. ? Research question

TEAM

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University College London, 26 Gordon Square, London, WC1.

Project team page http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/people/ Leader: Philip Schofield Institution: Partner institutions: Contact: transcribe.bentham@ucl.ac.uk

USER TASKS

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PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: crowdsourcing


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GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE
  • Tutorial: Somewhat
  • Peer to peer guidance: Somewhat
  • Training sequence: Somewhat
FEEDBACK ON
  • Individual performance: Somewhat
  • Collective performance: Somewhat
  • Research progress: Somewhat

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PROJECT

Url:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project
Start date: 2010/09/08
End date: Still open

TEAM

Official team page:http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/people/
Leader: Philip Schofield


Contact: transcribe.bentham@ucl.ac.uk
Main location: University College London, 26 Gordon Square, London, WC1.

PROJECT DEFINITION

Subject

Humanities > Literature (other)

Description

Transcribe Bentham is a an award-winning participatory project based at University College London. Its aim is to engage the public in the online transcription of original and unstudied manuscript papers written by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the great philosopher and reformer. "Transcribe Bentham emerged out of initial discussions between Professor Philip Schofield, the Director of the Bentham Project, and Martin Moyle of UCL Library Services, regarding the production of a digital Bentham resource for a forthcoming Arts and Humanities Research Council funding call. Martin proposed the establishment of a resource to facilitate crowdsourced transcription of the Bentham Papers, and a potential partnership between the Bentham Project, UCL Library Services, UCL’s Centre for Digital Humanities, and the University of London Computer Centre. After an initial meeting between Professor Schofield, Martin, Dr Melissa Terras (UCL DH), and Richard Davis (ULCC), hosted by Library Services, the project consortium was formed."(About Us, official project page)

Purpose.

Digital images of Jeremy Benthams’ published manuscripts are transcribed by volunteers to ensure long term preservation of the Philosophers works.

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ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS

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Grey typology Participation typology Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: YES
Sensing: NO Gaming: NO
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Science outreach ☐
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Gaming
Genre: Gaming elements: points
Interface
Data type to manipulate: text interface enjoyment:
Interface usability: 		Member profiles::N/A
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ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

Guidance Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: SOMEWHAT
Training sequence: SOMEWHAT
Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT
individual performance: Somewhat
collective performance: Somewhat
research progress: Somewhat

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COMMUNITY

Tools News & Events

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Social Network: Twitter, Facebook

Main news site: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/
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Type of events: other
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OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION



Bentham.jpg Yes [[has completion level::Low]

http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/people/

University College London, 26 Gordon Square, London, WC1. transcribe.bentham@ucl.ac.uk

Yes Literature Humanities other Digital images of Jeremy Benthams’ published manuscripts are transcribed by volunteers to ensure long term preservation of the Philosophers works.


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crowdsourcing text, other: Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: no points



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http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/

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