Thanks to the public's voracious appetite for historic cookbooks, the University of Iowa Libraries has recently reached a new milestone for its DIY History crowdsourcing site: 30,000 pages transcribed. Story
University of Iowa Libraries recently launched DIY History, a new initiative that crowdsources the transcription and tagging of primary sources including everything from recipes to diaries and correspondence from the Nile Kinnick Collection.
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DIY History lets the public contribute to historic scholarship by transcribing handwritten documents, including manuscript cookbooks from the University of Iowa Libraries’ Special Collections. Story
Using a new method called crowdsourcing, UI Libraries is enlisting the public's help to make historic documents searchable online. By transcribing scanned images of letters and diaries, volunteers save the libraries time and resources—and get a rare glimpse into the past. Story
