ABSTRACT
Zooniverse has supported a large number of citizen science' projects in the last several years. Most focus on the crowdsourcing of big data, such as the Galaxy Zoo identification projects, but others have a more historical focus. The Old Weather project is helping scientists recover weather observations included in the logbooks of Royal Navy vessels during the First World War era. Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that is written and maintained by users around the world, is by far the most well-known instance of successful crowdsourcing. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media's (RRCHNM) foray into community transcription with Papers of the War Department (PWD) and the development of Scripto offers some significant lessons for cultural heritage institutions and professionals who want to engage with their constituents in meaningful ways. The University of Alabama Libraries has offered over 500 items from their collections for transcription using Omeka and Scripto.
