Today, to celebrate National Volunteer Week, the Royal BC Museum launched Transcribe (transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca), a crowd-sourcing website that invites the public to transcribe valuable historical records from our archival collection.
David Mattison is an archivist (retired from active duty), historian and digital culture observer from British Columbia, Canada. His Ten Thousand Year Blog was hosted by WordPress.com between October 02008 and August 7, 02010. The photograph in the header was taken on May 22, 02009 at the Kew Gardens Tube station following a visit to the National Archives, England.
National Archives sign at Kew Gardens Station
2015-04-17
Royal BC Museum launches crowd-sourcing transcription project
From the announcement circulated to mailing lists such as ARCAN-L:
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