Being in DHSS 102 last semester and 101 this semester, I participated in a crowdsourcing project called DIY History and transcribed some projects, manuscripts, and articles and I essentially still hold the same opinion as last time, and I could probably say the same thing transcribing both times as I had some experience with it.
From what I’ve transcribed on DIY History, I can really appreciate the fact that people volunteer to transcribe old documents to make it accessible as possible to make it readable for different audiences. My first thought when I started doing these One of my favorite parts of this crowdsourcing project is that you get to learn and read from old documents, like different writing styles and seeing how writing has changed over the times. Not only do the transcribers get to learn, but new projects come out all the time, all being extremely and enjoyably diverse, and the content for the most part is extremely fascinating. It makes you wonder how much time and effort are put into all of this old medium on DIY History, all without the technology and computational resources that we have today. Honestly, if I could be paid to transcribe, I most definitely would (but volunteering to do so is always just as great).
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