'Making such bargain': Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced transcription1
'Making such bargain': Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced transcription1
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“讨价还价”：转录边沁和众包转录的质量和成本效益1
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10.1093/llc/fqx064
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2018
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近年来，出版了关于文化遗产部门众包的重要研究报告，涉及的主题包括志愿者的贡献数量、参与此类项目的人的动机、众包举措的设计和制定及其公众参与价值。这篇文章解决了文献中的一个空白，并试图回答与众包转录有关的两个关键问题：（1）志愿者的贡献是否足够高，可以创建一个公开访问的数据库，并用于学术研究;（2）众包转录是否具有经济意义，以及启动和运行这样一个项目的投资是否能够得到回报。在这样做的过程中，本文以2010年开始的屡获殊荣的众包转录计划Transcribe Bentham作为案例研究。报告审查了一个大型数据集，即2012年10月1日至2014年6月27日期间志愿人员提交的4 364份经核对和核准的成绩单。这些数据包括检查和批准每份成绩单所需的时间以及Transcribe Bentham staff对成绩单进行更改的次数等指标。然后，这些数据被用来评估该倡议的长期成本效益，以及其对正在进行的杰里米·本萨玛特作品集的生产的潜在影响。最后，本文提出了更一般的点成功规划人文众包项目，并提供了一个框架，在其中既可以评估其产出的质量和成本结构的效率。
In recent years, important research on crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage sector has been published, dealing with topics such as the quantity of contributions made by volunteers, the motivations of those who participate in such projects, the design and establishment of crowdsourcing initiatives, and their public engagement value. This article addresses a gap in the literature, and seeks to answer two key questions in relation to crowdsourced transcription: (1) whether volunteers’ contributions are of a high enough standard for creating a publicly accessible database, and for use in scholarly research; and (2) if crowdsourced transcription makes economic sense, and if the investment in launching and running such a project can ever pay off. In doing so, this article takes the award-winning crowdsourced transcription initiative,Transcribe Bentham, which began in 2010, as its case study. It examines a large data set, namely, 4,364 checked and approved transcripts submitted by volunteers between 1 October 2012 and 27 June 2014. These data include metrics such as the time taken to check and approve each transcript, and the number of alterations made to the transcript byTranscribe Benthamstaff. These data are then used to evaluate the long-term cost-effectiveness of the initiative, and its potential impact upon the ongoing production ofThe Collected Works of Jeremy Benthamat UCL. Finally, the article proposes more general points about successfully planning humanities crowdsourcing projects, and provides a framework in which both the quality of their outputs and the efficiencies of their cost structures can be evaluated.