Engaging curation: a look at the literature on participatory archival transcription

Temporalities and Values in an Epistemic Culture: Citizen Humanities, Local Knowledge, and AI-supported Transcription of Archives

“…7 Collaborative transcription now appears prominently within the field of participatory archives, as a way to share control of archival content curation with users who often identify themselves as stakeholders in relation to the archives' content. 8 Such work now also encompasses the use of AI, including the training and correcting of handwritten manuscripts for the use of HTR. 9 However, the cultural aspects of such work, particularly the epistemic cultures developing among volunteer contributors are largely unknown.…”