Making it Free, Making it Open: Crowdsourced transcription project leads to unexpected benefits to digital research.

The Transcribe Bentham project, a benchmark achievement for digital humanities research, relies on volunteer transcribers in order to make Jeremy Bentham’s writings more well known, accessible, and searchable, over the long term. Melissa Terras discusses the project’s underpinning ethos which emphasised “co-creation” rather than … Continue reading →