Transcribe Bentham

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

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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	Crowdsourcing ☑ Distributed intelligence ☐ Participatory science ☐ Extreme citizen science ☐ Science outreach ☐	Data collection ☐ Data analysis ☐ Data interpretation ☐--------
Gaming
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Interface
Data type to manipulate: text	interface enjoyment: Interface usability:	Member profiles::N/A Member profile elements:

ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

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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

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Communication: Social Network: Twitter, Facebook	Main news site: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/ Frequency of project news updates: N/A Type of events: other Frequency of events :
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Community size (volounteers based): Role: Interaction form: Has official community manager(s): N/A Has team work N/A

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OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION

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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.

Transcribe Bentham

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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