This reminds me of the stardust@home project, recruiting the public to whittle away at a mammoth task. In the stardust project it's to scan massive numbers of photomicrographs of a filter that traveled through space collecting dust for eventual analysis. In this article about the Bentham project, the public is being recruited to painstakingly interpret and copy handwritten manuscripts so they're available digitally. Here is a sample page of the manuscript and it's interpretation by the project. TE
Scholars Recruit Public for Project
A project in London is using crowd-sourcing to transcribe 40,000 unpublished manuscripts of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham.
http://nyti.ms/hymPWG
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