Here's an idea... Some of you may have seen today's (and previous) Slashdot links on reCaptcha, a cool idea that's starting to be more commonly-used:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7023627.stm http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html Basically they're using a CAPTCHA to digitize old scanned books.[1] This could be applied to handwritten historic records. However, it might be hard to trust regular schmoes to correctly transcribe handwritten historic texts. One way to address this might be to just ask more people the same word, and if they all (or mostly) match, we can be fairly certain it's transcribed correctly. Or this could just be used to verify a previous manual transcription. Thoughts? -Jon [1] FYI, a CAPTCHA is where you have to type a distorted word - to stop spammers & hackers. For example, when you mistype your password to enter gmail or yahoo mail enough times, it'll require you to type in a word that's blurred. The new application of this anti-spam technique is to use scanned books as the source of words. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
