[Openglam_members] Cultural Commons Projects?

Tue Aug 6 13:06:34 UTC 2013

Hi Adam, All,

I attended an AHRC workshop on this theme some months ago and I've just
found their final repot (attached) -- it has a useful list of projects
(including some of those already mentioned). Check it out!

Cheers,
Sam

On 5 August 2013 18:53, Adam Green <adam.green at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to include a section on The Public Domain Review which helps people
> who may want to get involved in contributing to the cultural commons - I am
> thinking of things like Transcription, tagging, other crowd-sourced
> initiatives, etc.
>
> I have these 3 from a email Sam sent:
>
> The Transcribe Bentham Project -
> http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
> Distributed Proofreaders (who help to transcribe a lot of Gutenberg's
> books) - http://www.pgdp.net/c/
> Old Weather, crowdsourcing the weather of the past using ships logs from
> 150 years ago - http://www.oldweather.org/
>
> And I guess also there is helping out with Wikimedia Commons, e.g.:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unidentified_subjects &
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps
>
>
> Any others that you can think of please let me know!
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Adam.
>
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