A Closer Look at“Step 1. Crowdsourcing Ground-Truth”

FactMiners, PRImA, & eMOP’s

Knight Prototype Fund Entry

Turn Text Soup into Smart Data in Newspaper & Magazine Archives”

Our Prototype Fund project is the strategic 1st step of

FactMiners & PRImA’s recent Knight News Challenge

entry… done via trans-oceanic Hackathons! And with a

little help from our eMOP friends. :-)

What is the difference between this Prototype Fund project and the R&D agenda proposed in our recent Knight News Challenge entry?

, PRImA, eMOP Prototype Fund entry : Step 1. Crowdsourcing Ground-Truth Knight News Challenge – “Turning Text Soup into Smart

Data in Newspaper & Magazine Archives”

• Focused on “Crowdsourcing Ground-Truth” (Part 4) as valuable contribution to the Internet Archive’s research collections while also being a Proof-Of-Concept for our larger research agenda

• We’ve expanded our research collaborators to include Texas A&M’s eMOP (Early Modern OCR Project)

• We’ll create the work product of the Prototype project via a two-session, two-location Ground-Truth Hackathon.

Welcome to the

TOC Pattern Reference Library

Please @KnightFdn folk, if we’re

ever to open the public school for

my kids at the Internet Archive,

my friends need your help.

How will we do a 6-month, 2-event Ground-Truth Hackathon?• Phase 1: Project/Event Training/Planning

• FactMiners’ Jim & Timlynn attend Prototype Fund training

• Fork Zooniverse on GitHub & Event/project planning

• CFP (Call for Participation) for Ground-Truth Hackathon

• Phase 2: Salford Hackathon & “Homework”• 2-3 day event in UK w/ webcast participation for others

• 8 weeks “homework” design/development before…

• Phase 3: Texas A&M Hackathon & Demo• 2-3 day event in USA w/ webcast, etc.

• 8 weeks polish, then demo prep

• Attendance at Demo Day by all Core Team members

, PRImA, eMOP Prototype Fund entry : Step 1. Crowdsourcing Ground-Truth Knight News Challenge – “Turning Text Soup into Smart

Data in Newspaper & Magazine Archives”

Month 0

Month 2

Month 4

Month 6

Ground-Truth

Hackathon

Call for Participation

A Research Journey begins with the determination to take the 1st step…

• As Iowa-based Citizen Scientists, Jim & Timlynn are determined to work with our world-class collaborators at PRImA & eMOP to turn Text Soup into Smart Data.

• A Prototype Fund award will “start the R&D ball rolling”

• On behalf of our Core Team• Jim Salmons, FactMiners• Timlynn Babitsky, FactMiners• Apostolos Antonacopoulos, PRImA• Christian Clausner, PRImA• Laura Mandell, eMOP (Texas A&M IDHMC)• Jude Coelho, Internet Archive

, PRImA, eMOP Prototype Fund entry : Step 1. Crowdsourcing Ground-Truth Knight News Challenge – “Turning Text Soup into Smart

Data in Newspaper & Magazine Archives”

You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to

see these folks really want to work on

AMAZING stuff together!