Crowdsourced Transcriptions of Humphry Davy's Notebooks

英国皇家学会(RI)拥有无与伦比的汉弗莱·戴维爵士笔记本收藏。作为十九世纪最著名的化学家之一，戴维用这些笔记本记录他的实验和写诗。从之前的AHRC关于戴维的信件的项目中有很多证据表明，公众对戴维、他的未出版手稿，特别是他的诗歌及其与他的科学的关系感兴趣。戴维的笔记本还没有被转录，只有亲自访问国际扶轮档案馆的读者才能获得。这个项目将从拥有170万注册志愿者的Zooniverse(https://www.zooniverse.org/))社区众包戴维的五本笔记本的转录。将制作手稿的高质量图像，并在一个可免费访问的网站上随抄本一起提供。这个目前的项目将要求Zooniverse的参与者反思诗歌如何帮助构建以Davy为例的科学知识，并思考艺术和科学今天可能如何合作。将笔记本数字化，使其能够为更多的受众所用，并为未来的研究创造了资源。这也意味着，非常脆弱的手稿本身可以得到国际扶轮的精心保存，同时向世界推广它们的历史收藏。Zooniverse的参与者将通过一个创新的新项目构建器学习新技能，该新项目构建器是为了在屏幕上呈现Davy的笔记本页面而创建的。之前对Zooniverse社区的调查发现，绝大多数人参与转录项目是因为他们喜欢为学术事业做出贡献。在上一次赠款期间开展的相关活动表明，抄写既能使个人满意，又能建立信任。了解了戴维之后，人们改变了对科学和艺术是“两种文化”的看法。

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) holds an unparalleled collection of Sir Humphry Davy's notebooks. One of the most famous chemists of the nineteenth century, Davy used these notebooks to record his experiments and to write poetry. There is much evidence from the previous AHRC project on Davy's letters that the public is interested in Davy, in his unpublished manuscripts, and, particularly, in his poetry and its relation to his science. Davy's notebooks have yet to be transcribed and they are only available to readers who visit the RI archive in person. This project will crowdsource transcriptions of five of Davy's notebooks from the Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/) community of 1.7 million registered volunteers. High-quality images of the manuscripts will be produced and made available on a freely accessible website accompanied with the transcriptions. This current project will ask the Zooniverse participants to reflect upon how poetry helped construct scientific knowledge using the example of Davy, and to think about how the arts and sciences might work together today. Digitising the notebooks makes them available to a much larger audience and creates a resource for future research. It also means that the manuscripts themselves, which are very fragile, can be carefully preserved by the RI while promoting their historical holdings to the world. The Zooniverse participants will learn new skills with an innovative new project builder created to render Davy's notebook page on screen. Previous surveys of the Zooniverse community have found that, overwhelmingly, people engage in transcription projects because they enjoy contributing to a scholarly endeavour. Related activities pursued during the previous grant demonstrated how transcription can be both personally satisfying and confidence-building. Learning about Davy caused people to change their minds about the idea of science and the arts as 'two cultures'.