Do volunteer transcriptions improve search and discovery in loc.gov?
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Abby Shelton, a Digital Collections Specialist and By the People Community Manager in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. How do people use crowdsourced transcriptions? Do they drive increased traffic and engagement to our digital collections? What kinds of activity do transcriptions of handwritten documents facilitate? …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Crowdsourcing, Guest Posts