e-manuscripta.ch: Fulltext - Crowdsourcing with Quality Assurance

Abstract

The platform for digitised manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives, e-manuscripta.ch, has been extended with a module that allows the creation of transcriptions and annotations for previously published documents. In close cooperation with the company semantics Kommunikationsmanagement GmbH, the existing module of the Visual Library application (the basic system of e-manuscripta.ch) was supplemented with a formalised editorial concept (online access, registration, revision, publication), which allows free access to transcription in compliance with certain guidelines, while serving as a foundation for future crowdsourcing. This paper presents the newly developed functions and discusses the various possible types of participation and cooperation with interested users.