Transcription (Crowdsourcing)

Minna de Honkoku 

A crowd-sourced project through the Kyoto University Historical Study Group that is dedicated to the transcription of historical texts, character by character, into machine-encoded, computerized text.  It is linked with the KuLA kuzushiji learning app and has over 3000 text images compiled from the app.  Registration is required to participate.

Ten Thousand Rooms 

A collaborative platform developed at Yale University that allows users to upload images of manuscript, print, and other sources and then organize projects around their transcription, translation, and/or annotation. Registration is not required to view projects, but is necessary for initiating a new project.

Kuzushiji Challenge 

The Center for Open Data in the Humanities has released "Character Shape" dataset as training data for AI machine learning that is empowered by the collective power and effort of people to create machine readable kuzushiji

L-Crowd Project 

Supported by the National Diet Library, L-Crowd Project is the first large-scale library crowdsourcing initiative in Japan. Project contributors help with finding errors in bibliographic records and join in collaborative transcription of digitized books from the Meiji period.

Japan Digital Disasters Archive (JDA)

The Japan Digital Disasters Archive (JDA) is an advanced search engine for disaster materials related to Japan. The site not only facilitates searching of materials, but actively encourages user submissions of resources such as websites, videos, photographs, and user testimonials about personal experiences.  There is added ability to create curated collections and interactive presentations, which the user can both share and exchange information with an ever-expanding network.