Transcribe Bentham has launched!
By uczwvhw, on 7 September 2010
The Transcribe Bentham crowdsourcing initiative officially launched today. Our Transcription Desk is now open to the public and we encourage everyone to have a go at transcribing Jeremy Bentham’s papers! We welcome all contributions and all thoughts on anything relating to Bentham and the project in general. You are warmly encouraged to explore the site, create a profile and post comments on our discussion board. Tell us about your favourite Bentham quote or invented word! Gain points for your contributions to move up our progress ladder and become a transcribing prodigy! Track the progress of transcription by viewing the Benthamometer.
This is the first major crowdsourcing transcription project, from which we will learn much about the nature of community engagement and social media. We will share these results with you in the near future. In the meantime we hope you enjoy the site!
Have fun!
6 Responses to “Transcribe Bentham has launched!”
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Transcribe Bentham » Blog Archive » Six months later… wrote on 8 March 2011:
[…] back in the mists of time, when Transcribe Bentham was first announced and subsequently launched onto an unsuspecting world, we could never have imagined it to be as successful as it has. Aside […]
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Crowdsourcing – a new way to do scholarly work? « Hedda – Higher Education Development Association wrote on 20 May 2011:
[…] a relatively closed arena with respect to mass collaborations from the general public. However, the Transcribe Bentham project was finally launched in 7th of September 2010 and it challenges this traditional division, the general public was invited to participate in […]
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Transcribe Bentham » Blog Archive » Progress update, 27 August – 2 September 2011, and Happy Birthday TB! wrote on 7 September 2011:
[…] a happy coincidence that the update is issued today, as 12 months ago to the day the Transcription Desk was launched to the public to begin crowdsourcing Bentham’s […]
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Transcribe Bentham » Blog Archive » Two years on, and progress update, 1 to 7 August 2012 wrote on 7 September 2012:
[…] 7 September 2010, Transcribe Bentham was officially launched upon an unsuspecting public, with the aim of recruiting […]
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Alice wrote on 11 June 2019:
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