[Openglam_members] Cultural Commons Projects?

Tue Aug 6 15:45:11 UTC 2013

Brilliant, thanks Sam!

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On 6 August 2013 14:06, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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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