Digitalkoot
(Joint project with the National Library of Finland), www.digitalkoot.com
- Project uses Microtask platform and volunteers to correct OCR errors in an old newspaper archive, enabling accurate text search
- Output is a standard METS/ALTO file with human corrected OCR results
- Voluntary workforce plays word-fixing games (Youtube link)
- Launched Feb 8 2011, with great results:
85.000 users, 5.2 million tasks completed in the first 9 months