Any advances in crowdshare projects?
I’m reading the comments on the concept of indexing done by users, referred to as indexing on the fly. Are there any advances to this concept? Those of us who spend hours in certain geographic areas recognize surnames and could easily index these documents. Even a searchable comment box with a tag for a surname that references a page number would be a major help to researchers.
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We had this discussion just a few days ago.
The short answer is no, no real progress AFAIK. With RootsTech 2025 fast approaching, perhaps we will know more soon.0 -
There would need to be a clearly defined set of metadata for the personas and where relevant relationships covered by each collection, backed up by instructions on identifying records, personas, and relationships on images and for the use of the metadata set, and a user-friendly, collection-specific indexing user interface with accurate data validation and clear error messages. At present little of this appears to me to be in place.
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It occurs to me to wonder: is there a repository/website out there that's already doing on-the-fly transcription or indexing?
(Come to think of it, is FS reinventing the wheel with the much-troubled index editor? I'm not subscribed to the other big repositories, so I don't know for certain, but it is my impression that they're all somewhat like the "improve this place" procedure in FS's Places tool: what you submit is a suggestion, and a human being handles it at the other end. Is there another site where users can [theoretically] directly edit the index?)
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I subscribe to many of the big for-pay websites or use them at my absolutely wonderful local library which is also an affiliate for FS and was one of the original 5 Beta affiliate/partner libraries
On Ancestry, we can submit a correction/variation. It doesn't replace anything but eventually shows up as a searchable alternate.
On FindMyPast, we can submit a correction. Often, the original searchable name will disappear for a short time before the new version is vetted and available.
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