Introducing Historypin’s “Pubs of London” Project
London is famous for its pubs, there’s no doubt about that, with many of them being hundreds...
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Tag: crowdsourcing
Give A Little Back
Call it crowdsourcing, volunteering or just helping out – it all means the same thing. And there are many places around the world that are calling out for volunteers for indexing, transcribing and photographing. And as the quote says “no matter how small, it is never wasted”. Or as I say, “every little bit helps”.
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Victorian Goldfields on Fire Crowdsourcing Project
Archival Access Victoria launched a crowdsourcing project a few months ago to digitise Victorian country town court records. That worked well, and now they are on to a new project, this one to do with the Victorian Goldfields, but they need your held to do so.
Read MoreCrowdsourcing for the Retake Melbourne Project
Let me introduce you to the “Retake Melbourne” project. The State Library of Victoria has a vast collection of old photographs of Melbourne, one collection in particular is that from immigrant Australian photographer Mark Strizic who tooks over 5000 images. Using these images the idea is to re-photograph Melbourne.
Read MoreA New Project to Digitise Country Victoria Records
Victoria’s history sits on 9km of shelving in the PROV’s repository at North Melbourne. The problem is, these records are hundreds of kilometres away from the folks in country Victoria, so aren’t easily accessible. Now Archival Access Victoria has come up with a Project that will help everyone. Their plan is to digitise these records for country Victoria …
Read MoreHelp Transcribe the National Archives of Australia’s Records with arcHIVE
Do you have some spare time? Would you like to see more Australian records readily available online? If you answered yes to both, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) are looking for people like you to help transcribe their records. While they already have millions of records online and searchable using RecordSearch, there are still throusands (if not millions) more unindexed.
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