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Past Experience
• Wales 1900 http://gb1900.org
• Cynefin: http://cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk/en/– 800 active volunteers
• Wales at War: http://www.walesatwar.org/site/home– Working with Schools
• Chartists: http://chartist.cynefin.wales– Omeka
• Book of Remembrance: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022– Mirador and SimpleAnnotationServer
• Aber Student Records: http://transcribe.library.wales/aber
• In house volunteers– Aberystwyth Shipping Records transcription
Drivers
• Supporting remote volunteers
• Faster results for volunteers
• Be able to support more projects and provide more opportunities
Benefits of Crowdsourcing
• Engagement
• Enhanced discovery
• Research and Re-imagining
– https://medium.com/@404mike/shipping-records-73e3fd48a16e#.aqxgfeogl
– Video of ships traveling around the world
– Heat map of Sailors birth places
– Average age
Project
• Funded by the Welsh Government• Out to tender in December• A strong response from the market• Awarded the contract to Digiarti in January.
• Open Source• Use IIIF and W3C Web Annotations• Reusable for community• Extensible• Based on Omeka-S
Collections
• Why these?
– No copyright issues
– Digitised and available online
– Representative of future projects
– Available volunteers
New project
• Find IIIF Collection
• Add to Omeka
• Setup Omeka website
• Configure Capture model
• Go!