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Marion Lais
Elisa Herrmann
Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin
Cultural Heritage and Crowdsourcing

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Project scope
Offer a modern version and provide online access to
historic phones & address directories (approx. 500.000
pages)
∷ Objects:
∷ 128 Address Directories (1799-1943): ca. 50 Mio. entries
∷ 158 Telephone Directories (1936-1992): ca. 200 Mio. entries
∷ Project Period: 10.09.2012-12.04.2013

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Project Goals
Offer a modern version and provide online access to
historic phones & address directories (approx. 500.000
pages)
∷ Photo editing
∷ OCR - text recognition
∷ Create repository with digital objects incl. table of contents
and search functions
∷ User friendly online surface for a structured search
∷ Supporting and enabling a crowdsourcing-function

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Example: Berlin address directory 1850

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Adressbucheinträge in den Rohdaten
OCR-Ergebnisse (l.) und Transkription (r.)
OCR (text recognition)

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∷How crowdsourcing works

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Crowdsourcing – text correction

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Crowdsourcing – completion of entríes

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Statistics

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User

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After project start up
∷ Adaptation to Corporate Design
∷ Additonal entry fields for „entry completion“
∷ Possibility to insert & delete lines during „text
correction“
∷ Administration area

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User feedback
∷ initial problems with digital search functionalities
∷ a certain degree of getting used to the new system and
the way data is presented  initially high customer
service effort
∷ Many users are passive users, but number of active
users is growing

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Future steps
∷ (Interactive) Tutorial
∷revised reward system
∷ Increased marketing to target groups
∷ Eg. Initiative Stolpersteine Berlin

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Next: Our project 2014
∷ Continue the MakerSpace movement with:
∷ Virtual exhibitions and
∷ Story Telling
∷ fusion of real and virtual space creates new
possibilities to get in touch with new target
groups

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Thank you
Marion Lais
Leiterin Digitale Dienste
lais@zlb.de
digitalisierung@zlb.de
Fon +49 (30) 90226 - 141
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http:digital.zlb.de
Elisa Herrmann
Crowdsourcing
elisa.herrmann@zlb.de
digitalisierung@zlb.de
Fon +49 (30) 90226 - 316