I agree with Thomas's logic, if not the maths (surely $2,000?) I was going to do a few myself but it looks like comments have been disabled on the Flickr images?
________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Thomas Krichel [kric...@openlib.org] Sent: 10 December 2015 23:17 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Wine Loving Developer at University of California, Davis j...@code4lib.org writes > **PROJECT DETAILS** > The UC Davis University Library is launching a project to digitize the > [Amerine wine label collection](https://www.flickr.com/photos/brantley/sets/72 > 157655817440104/with/21116552632/) Some look like hard to read. > and engage the public to transcribe the information contained on the > labels and associated annotations. This may take a long time. I suggest rather than doing that, take somebody in a low-income country who speaks French, say, and who will type all the data in. That way you get consistency in the data. I live in Siberia, I can find somebody there. Once this data is in a simple text file, you can use in-house staff to attach it to the label images in your systems. Crowdsource sounds cool, but for 4000 label it makes no sense. If the typist gets $10/h, and gets 20 labels done in 1h, we are talking $200. The visit you are planning for your developer will cost that much. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel
