Are there any circumstances under which wording could or should be different?
I'm going to volunteer for a FamilySearch indexing project but in the meantime - I'm working on an indexing project for another company. They've just updated volunteers on how they'd like us to use THEIR chosen adjectives in place of the adjectives on the pages to be indexed - historical records. Is this acceptable? I always thought the point of indexing is to preserve records word for word - exactly as it appears.
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I work on 6 different sites involved in transcribing historical records. When we transcribe, every word is transcribed exactly as it written. The only two where I have seen indexing projects are FamilySearch and From The Page. But, every site I work on has a different set of rules for transcribers to follow. Within those, some projects go even further to explain more details about what they expect. I find this especially to be true with projects at The Smithsonian and on From The Page. But, when we work on crowd-sourcing projects whatever the owners of the records advise us to do are the instructions we should follow.
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What is a crowd-sourcing project?
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Crowd-sourcing refers to any of the many transcription, indexing, or other data collection projects that we see on the internet.
One definition of crowd-sourcing is: the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the internet.
So, you are working on a crowd-sourcing project for whatever company you are "working for" as a volunteer.
FamilySearch Indexing, Zooniverse, Smithsonian Transcription Center, US National Archives Citizen Archivist, By The People of the Library of Congress, Billion Graves, FindAGrave, Ancestry's World Archives, various libraries, etc. are examples of crowd-sourcing sites. There are hundreds of them.
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