add commenting/annotation system

[kimpham54]

consider:

• hypothesis
• link to google form
• simple js comment system
• custom built

[kimpham54]

From Doug:

Agreed! If we build it ourselves, we wouldn’t have to rely on free-ware-with-baggage from Google/FB.

Thanks Doug! I hope we can do it without forcing people to log in with their Facebook or Google accounts… -k (kevin)

The login to correct or comment on the California Digital Newspaper Collection is much cleaner:
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc

Please see “FIX IT : a transcript game” in the upper right corner of this freely available resource that’s in our A-Z database list.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting
http://americanarchive.org/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=online&q=%22farmworkers+theatre%22

I do hope we can incorporate something similar in our repositories to harness the expertise of patrons who find errors (subtle, or total nonsense) in our OCR and audio transcripts. It’s much better to provide a pathway for immediate feedback, than to leave alert and well-informed patrons snarling in the wilderness.

The crowd-sourced OCR corrections to the California Digital Newspaper Collection I mentioned at our DCS meeting are a great idea, but the crowd-sourced image transcription initiative at the Library of Congress is a step beyond.

“The software powering the crowdsourcing program has been released by the Library as open source for the benefit and use of other cultural heritage organizations considering similar efforts. View or contribute to the code repository at github.com/LibraryOfCongress/concordia.”