The Institute for Language and Folklore organises webinars on crowdsourcing and automatic transcription of archive data in collaboration with the National Language Bank (Swe-CLARIN)

13 oktober, 10-12 – (English)
Sanita Reinsone, Riga: Crowdsourcing in Practice: Digital Archives of Latvian Folklore

20 oktober, 10-12 – (English)
Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Dublin: Meitheal Dúchas.ie: Sharing the work of digitizing the National Folklore Collection

17 november, 13-15 – (Swedish)
Karl-Magnus Johansson, Göteborg: Machine Learning and Local Knowledge -- A Presentation of an Ongoing Handwritten Text Recognition and Citizen Science Project at the National Archives in Gothenburg

24 november, 13-15 – (Swedish)
Erik Magnusson Petzell, Göteborg: Automatic transcription of dialect texts

Information and registration forms:
https://www.isof.se/om-oss/forskning/sprakbanken-sam/webbinarier-om-crowdsourcing-och-maskintranskribering.html (Swedish)
https://www.isof.se/om-oss/forskning/webinar-series-on-crowdsourcing-and-automatic-transcription.html (English)