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摘要
本文研究了在两个合作转录项目中招募和保留志愿转录员的具体策略:scribe Bentham(伦敦大学学院)和Estoria de Espanna数字项目(伯明翰大学)。本文的目的是回顾更成熟的众包电子转录项目“转录边沁”所使用的策略,以期为最近开始使用众包进行转录的“Estoria”项目所采用的策略提供信息。本文讨论了众包电子转录项目所面临的困难,以及这两个项目是如何解决这些困难的。讨论的困难包括所涉及的古文字的复杂性,使用XML标记抄本的必要性,对志愿者制作的抄本进行调节和质量控制的要求,以及在工作人员和众包者之间创造一种友爱的气氛,其中许多人从未,也永远不会面对面。这些发现可能对其他合作电子转录项目有用,并将为Estoria项目继续使用策略提高众包转录员的招聘和保留水平提供信息和指导。
Transcribing the "Estoria de Espanna" using crowdsourcing: Strategies and aspirations
This paper examines the specific strategies for recruitment and retention of volunteer transcribers in use in two collaborative transcription projects: Transcribe Bentham (University College, London) and the Estoria de Espanna Digital Project (University of Birmingham). The aim of the paper is to review the strategies used by Transcribe Bentham, a more mature crowdsourced electronic transcription project, with a view to informing the strategies put into place in the Estoria project, which has started transcribing using crowdsourcing more recently. The paper discusses the difficulties faced by crowdsourced electronic transcription projects and how these have been and are being resolved in these two projects. The difficulties discussed include the complexity of the palaeography involved, the necessity of tagging transcriptions using XML, the requirement to moderate and carry out quality-control of volunteer-produced transcriptions, and the creation of an atmosphere of camaraderie amongst staff-members and crowdsourcers, many of whom have never, and will never meet face-to-face. The findings may be useful for other collaborative electronic transcription projects and will inform and shape the way the Estoria project continues to use strategies to raise levels of recruitment and retention of crowdsourced transcribers.
期刊介绍:
Its coverage is threefold: (1) Cultural subjects for the Romance area, in the medieval and post-medieval era (up to 1600). (2) Literature, linguistics and cultural issues in general, concerning the Crown of Aragon and Occitania (and other related areas such as Naples and Navarre). (3) Digital humanities or otherwise methodological studies, provided that they may be of service to the medievalist. This annual publication has been created with the intention of serving as a platform for works that exceed the conventional length of journal articles. Therefore Magnificat CLM will preferably publish long articles, but articles of medium length are not excluded. Magnificat CLM is aimed at an audience of researchers and specialists in medieval studies, especially Romance philology, as well as of specialists in digital humanities. Magnificat CLM consists of a single section of articles, occasionally including a monographic dossier on particular subjects. All articles are indexed. Magnificat CLM published its first volume in 2014.