A Platform Development of

Crowdsourcing Archival Description and

Transcription in R.O.C.

Chuan-Kai Kao and Tsu-Feng Ho

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uture Direction

MotivationWhy Collaboration?

Digitization

National records keep

increasing

Limited archival professionals

Open Data

Open Government

Open Archive

Domain knowledge

Geological/Time experience

Related WebsitesCitizen Archivist - The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

We Learned

Integration

Tag

Related WebsitesThe Citizen Archivist Project - National Archives of Singapore

We Learned

Diversified Collaboration

Image Description

Audio Transcription

Category

Promotion

Related WebsitesThe arcHIVE - National Archives of Australia

We Learned

Encourage Involvement

Scoring

OCR Integration

Related WebsitesMonasterium Collaborative Archive - Monasterium.net ICARUS

We Learned

Moderator

Related WebsitesSmithsonian Transcription Center – Smithsonian Institution

We Learned a lot…

Category

Promotion

Related WebsitesPalaeography (Transcription) – The National Archives(UK)

We Learned

Interactive Tutorial

ApproachesSystem Architecture

HATEOAS(Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State)

ApproachesSystem Functions

PrototypeKey factors to encourage involvement

Involvement

Matters

PrototypeCatalog Collaboration

Versions

Partially Editable

PrototypeImage description and transcription

Press enter to add tag

Transcription/Description

Transcription/Description

Future Direction

Organize the community

Find moderator from collaborators

Consider Review Mechanism

Transcriptions/Descriptions/Tags

as machine learning training data

Automatic version merging

Identify synonym

Apply Artificial Intelligence

Using tags to connect records

Connect Records

As metadata for searching

Records relationship

Enhance access to records

Let’s get involved