Abstract
The crowd-sourced transcription project, “Anti-slavery Manuscripts at the Boston Public Library,” was launched on January 23, 2018, through the Zooniverse platform. The project had a clear goal: asking for help to transcribe correspondence between 19th anti-slavery activists so that these letters could be, as the project site explains, “more easily read and researched by students, teachers, historians, and big data applications.” In 2019, I contributed to the project with students from an undergraduate American History survey class. This paper explores the process of our collaborative contribution, and reflects on pedagogical lessons learned from the participatory project.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Technologies in Knowledge Sharing
KEYWORDS
Participation, Community, Pedagogy
Digital Media
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