Transcribe Bentham
In 2010 the Bentham Project was awarded a Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact (DEDEFI) Award from the AHRC to launch the Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative, or Transcribe Bentham for short. The Bentham Project, in collaboration with the University of London Computer Centre, UCL Library Services and UCL Learning and Media Services, and with consultation from the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, has created a Transcription Desk where volunteer users can log-in and transcribe previously unstudied and unpublished manuscripts from the Bentham Papers collection in UCL Library's Special Collections.
Transcribe Bentham has been honoured with an Award of Distinction in the Digital Communities category of the highly prestigious Prix Ars Electronica 2011.
Part of the annual Ars Electronica festival, the Prix is the world’s foremost digital arts competition and has recognised many superb projects since it began in 1987. Former winners include Peter Gabriel, Tim Berners-Lee, Aphex Twin, and the animation team responsible for the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park. The Digital Communities section was won in 2004 by Wikipedia, and in 2009 Wikileaks was the recipient of the same Award of Distinction now bestowed upon Transcribe Bentham.
Once transcripts are submitted by volunteers, they are edited by Bentham Project staff. All submitted transcripts and corresponding manuscript images will soon become fully accessible online in UCL Library's Digital Collections.
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