Crowdsourcing Bentham: Beyond the Traditional Boundaries of Academic History
Crowdsourcing Bentham: Beyond the Traditional Boundaries of Academic History
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10.3366/ijhac.2014.0119
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2014-04
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T. Causer;Melissa Mhairi Terras
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作者：
T. Causer;Melissa Mhairi Terras
边沁论文转录计划2（简称边沁转录）是一项屡获殊荣的众包手稿转录计划，旨在让学生、研究人员和公众了解哲学家和改革家杰里米·边沁（Jeremy Bentham，1748-1832）的思想和生活，通过提供他手稿的数字图像，让世界上任何地方的任何人都可以转录。自2010年9月启动以来，志愿人员已转录了260多万字。本文将探讨边沁的成绩单人文研究和新兴领域的数字人文。然后，它将讨论该项目的志愿者在庞大的边沁论文集中做出重大新发现的潜力，并检查迄今为止志愿者转录的有趣材料的几个例子。我们在这里证明，一个众包的倡议，如转录边沁可以打开活动，传统上被视为学术努力，以更广泛的Au.
The Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative2 (Transcribe Bentham for short) is an award-winning crowdsourced manuscript transcription initiative which engages students, researchers, and the general public with the thought and life of the philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), by making available digital images of his manuscripts for anyone, anywhere in the world, to transcribe. Since its launch in September 2010, over 2.6 million words have been transcribed by volunteers. This paper will examine Transcribe Bentham's contribution to humanities research and the burgeoning field of digital humanities. It will then discuss the potential for the project's volunteers to make significant new discoveries among the vast Bentham Papers collection, and examine several examples of interesting material transcribed by volunteers thus far. We demonstrate here that a crowd-sourced initiative such as Transcribe Bentham can open up activities that were traditionally viewed as academic endeavors to a wider au...