Transcribe Bentham

Publications

• Causer, Tim, and Wallace, Valerie. ‘Building a volunteer community: results and findings from Transcribe Bentham‘, Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012.

• Causer, Tim, Tonra, Justin, and Wallace, Valerie. ‘Transcription maximized; expense minimized: crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham‘, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 27, no. 2, 2012.

• Achaleke, Beatrice, Graham Harwood, Aaron Koblin, Liu Yan, and Tiago Peixoto, ‘Guinea Pigs and Apples: Digital Communities category jury summary”, in Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, and Gerfried Stocker, Cyberarts 2011: the International Compendium of the Prix Ars Electronica 2011. Hatje Cantz, 2011.

• Moyle, Martin, Tonra,  Justin, and Wallace, Valerie.  “Manuscript transcription by crowdsourcing: Transcribe Bentham.” LIBER Quarterly. 20:3 (2011).

Talks

May 2013

• Tonra, Justin, ‘Manuscript transcription: the habits of crowds’, The Limits of the Archive: Classification, Management, Digitization workshop, University College Cork, 16 May 2013.

March 2013

• Causer, Tim, ‘Crowdsourcing experts panel’, Market Research Society Annual Conference 2013, London, 19 March 2013.
• Terras, Melissa, ‘Digital Humanities and the Crowd: Using Technology for Outreach and Engagement‘, University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 4 March 2013.

February 2013

• Causer, Tim, ‘Transcribe Bentham‘, Twenty-First Century Curatorship series, British Library, London, 28 February 2013.

• Terras, Melissa, ‘Digital Humanities and the crowd: opportunities for public engagement’, Digital Humanities Lecture Series, University of Darmstadt, 7 February 2013.

November 2012

• Causer, Tim, ‘Transcribe Bentham‘, Networks of Regional Innovation: The Case of the Atlantic Region Policy Workshop, St Anne’s College, Oxford, 15 November 2012.

• Schofield, Philip, ‘Transcribe Bentham: an experiment in scholarly crowdsourcing’, Digital Humanities Lecture Series, University of Darmstadt, 8 November 2012.

October 2012

• Terras, Melissa, ‘Digital Humanities and the crowd: the potential for digital engagement and outreach’, Exploring Digital Humanities, University of Ghent, 10-13 October 2012.

September 2012

• Terras, Melissa, ‘Digital Humanities and the Crowd: using technology for outreach and engagement‘, Digital Arts and Humanities Institute, NUI Galway, 20 September 2012.

June 2012

• Terras, Melissa, ‘Transcribe Bentham: Crowdsourcing or Crowdsifting?’. Community-powered digital transformations in learning workshop, Digital Transformations, 21 June 2012, UCL.

• Terras, Melissa, ‘Transcribe Bentham: Issues in Crowdsourcing’. The Oxford e-Research Centre Tuesday Seminar Series, University of Oxford, 12 June 2012.

May 2012

• Causer, Tim, ‘Transcribe Bentham: editions based on crowdsourcing technologies’, LIBER Promoting Access to Manuscript Content conference, Paris, 29-31 May 2012.

• Causer, Tim, ‘Transcribe Bentham‘, AHRC Crowdsourcing Workshop, King’s College London, 28 May 2012.

February 2012

• Terras, Melissa, ‘The Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative: Transcribe Bentham’, Guest Lecture, University of Edinburgh Library, 24 February 2012.

January 2012

• Wallace, Valerie, ‘Transcribing Jeremy Bentham’ on the The Future Is Here: Digital Methods in Research and Teaching in History panel, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 7 January 2012.

December 2011

• Terras, Melissa, ‘Crowdsourcing the Digital Edition: The Transcribe Bentham Project’. DISH (Digital Strategies for Heritage) Conference, Transcribing Heritage Documents session http://www.dish2011.nl/sessions/transcribing-heritage-documents. Rotterdam, December 2011

November 2011

• Causer, Tim, Presentation to the Welsh Wills Online Expert’s Forum, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 11 November 2011

September 2011

• Causer, Tim, Presentation to the Digital Communities winner’s forum, Ars Electronica festival. Brucknerhaus, Linz, 4 September 2011.

May 2011:

• Wallace, Valerie, and Tim Causer. “Character Journey: the Story of the Supertranscriber.” Beyond Collections 2011. University of Oxford, 26 May 2011. Podcast available here, and the video here.

March 2011:

• Wallace, Valerie, and Tim Causer. “Crowdsourced transcription: some findings from the Transcribe Bentham project.” Archives Discovery Forum 2011. The National Archives, 2 March 2011.

February 2011:

• Schofield, Philip, and Valerie Wallace. “Transcribe Bentham: Taking the Bentham Edition into the Digital Age.” London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship. Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 10 February 2011.

October 2010:

• Schofield, Philip, and Justin Tonra. “Transcription Maximized; Expense Minimized: Crowdsourcing and Editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.” Textual Scholarship Seminar. School of Advanced Studies, University of London. 12 October 2010.

July 2010:

• Terras, Melissa. “Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon.” Digital Humanities 2010. King’s College London, London. 10 July 2010. Eprints.

June 2010:

• Moyle, Martin, Justin Tonra, and Valerie Wallace. “Crowdsourcing manuscript transcription: the Transcribe Bentham project.” LIBER 2010 Annual Conference. Aarhus University, Aarhus. 30 June 2010. Eprints.

• Terras, Melissa. “Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: UCL’s Transcribe Bentham Project.” Seeing Is Believing: New Technologies For Cultural Heritage. International Society for Knowledge Organization. University College London, London. 9 June 2010. Eprints.

May 2010:

• Tonra, Justin, and Valerie Wallace. “Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative.” JISC Content Programme Meeting. Hoxton Hotel, London. 19 May 2010. Eprints.