1. Manuscript transcription: the habits of crowds The Limits of the Archive | 16 May 2013 justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie @jtonra | @transcribentham

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3. Legacy transcript s PROJECT WEBSITE PROJECT EDITORS DIGITAL REPOSITORY SOURCES Images Metadata TEI transcripts Retro-conversion to TEI Quality assurance Manuscripts Training materials Registration Discussion forum Transcription tool Ideas bank Blog Web pages Folio catalogue TRANSCRIPTION WIKI TEI Transcripts COLLECTED WORKS Moyle, Martin, Justin Tonra and Valerie Wallace. “Manuscript transcription by crowdsourcing: Transcribe Bentham.” LIBER Quarterly 20:3 (2011).

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6. Bibliography Causer, Tim, and Valerie Wallace. ‘Building a volunteer community: results and findings from Transcribe Bentham.’ Digital Humanities Quarterly 6.2 (2012). Web.Building a volunteer community: results and findings from Transcribe Bentham Causer, Tim, Justin Tonra and Valerie Wallace. ‘Transcription maximized; expense minimized: crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.’ Literary and Linguistic Computing 27.2 (2012). Web.Transcription maximized; expense minimized: crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham Moyle, Martin, Justin Tonra and Valerie Wallace. ‘Manuscript transcription by crowdsourcing: Transcribe Bentham.’ LIBER Quarterly 20:3 (2011). Web.Manuscript transcription by crowdsourcing: Transcribe Bentham Transcribe BenthamTranscribe Bentham. Web. Thanks: Tim Causer