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Film, Video By the People Teacher Webinar: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress

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Title

  • By the People Teacher Webinar: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress

Summary

  • The Library of Congress launched By the People (crowd.loc.gov) in the autumn of 2018. The application invites users to transcribe, review and tag digitized images of manuscripts and typed materials from the Library's collections. Library experts share how all transcriptions are made and reviewed by volunteers before they are returned to loc.gov, the Library's website. These transcriptions will improve search, readability and access to handwritten and typed documents for those who are not fully sighted or cannot read the handwriting of the original documents.

Event Date

  • February 12, 2019

Running Time

  • 58 minutes 25 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

By the People Teacher Webinar: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress. 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8661/.

APA citation style:

(2019) By the People Teacher Webinar: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8661/.

MLA citation style:

By the People Teacher Webinar: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress. 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8661/>.