MarylandToday
Crowdsourcing Project Aims to Preserve Work of African American Art Pioneer
By Hayleigh Moore
February 23, 2021
Washington Post
By Mike Rosenwald
May 18, 2020
Library Journal
Library of Congress Launches Crowdsourcing Platform
By by Matt Enis
November 29, 2018
- “Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems: Museums and research libraries are reporting huge spikes of do-it-yourself historians,” by Mike Rosenwald, May 18, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/18/historical-documents-transcribe- volunteers/
- “By the People: Rewriting American history without changing a word,” TV spot, WYFF News 4, 4/17/20, https://www.wyff4.com/article/by-the-people-rewriting-american-history-without-changing-a-word/32238052#
- “A guide to the internet,” by Andrea Roberson and Alex Tatusian, LA Times , 4/2/20, https://www.latimes.com/projects/guide-to-the-internet/#be-helpful
- “How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room: If you’re cooped-up and curious, use your free time to decipher handwriting, tag images, and more,” by Jessica Leigh Hester, 3/23/20, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home
- “You Can Help the Library of Congress Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Poems and Letters: Roughly 1,860 transcriptions still need to be reviewed,” by Megan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3/2/20, https://www.southernliving.com/news/walt-whitman-library-of-congress-transcribe?
- Radio interviewee for Brigham Young University, 30 minute “Constant Wonder” program, alongside Janice Ruth, Acting Chief of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, on the theme of Suffrage and crowdsourcing (8/14/19).
- “Write history for the Library of Congress’ crowdsourcing project: Transcribe historical documents for By the People ,” Barbara Krasnoff, The Verge, 8/14/19, https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20804361/historical-documents-library-of-congress-by-the-people-crowdsourcing-project-transcription.
- “Library of Congress Seeks Help Transcribing Suffragist Documents,” Lyndsie Manusos, Book Riot , 8/2/19, https://bookriot.com/2019/08/02/library-of-congress-seeks-help/.
- “The Library of Congress Needs Help Transcribing 16,000 Pages of Suffragist Diaries, Letters, and Documents,” Ellen Gutoskey, Mental Floss , 7/31/19, http://mentalfloss.com/article/593040/library-congress-needs-help-transcribing-suffragist-documents.
- “The Library of Congress Needs Your Help Transcribing Suffragist Papers,” Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine , 7/30/2019, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/library-congress-needs-your-help-transcribing-suffragist-papers-1-180972677/.
- “The National Archives has billions of handwritten documents. With cursive skills declining, how will we read them?”, Debra Bruno, Washington Post (Lifestyle Magazine) , 6/17/19, https://wapo.st/2WN29FG.
- “Tech That Connects Us—and Makes Us Better Humans,” Wired, 5/14/19, https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-love-tech-better-humans/
- “Library of Congress Launches Crowdsourcing Platform,” Library Journal , 11/29/18, https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=181129LCcrowdsourcing
- “Crowdsourcing for Shakespeare,” Roberta Kwok, The New Yorker , 1/16/17. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/crowdsourcing-for-shakespeare
- “Transcribing Shakespeare’s World,” Oxford Today , 28:2, (Summer, 2016), 17.
- “Zooniverse: Shakespeare’s World,” Larry Greenmeier, 12/24/15, https://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/zooniverse-shakespeare-s-world/.
- BBC World Service, “Newsday Programme”, 12/9/15, to cover launch of Shakespeare’s World.
- “Where there’s a quill … help to unpick manuscripts from the days of Shakespeare,” Nicola Davis, Guardian Observer , 12/10/15, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/08/manuscripts-online-volunteers-decipher-script
- “Art sublime; writing appalling,” by art critic Richard Brooks for Sunday Times , 8/30/15, to cover launch of AnnoTate.