Imagine a retired teacher in Ohio and a university student in Manchester studying scanned images of 19th-century ship logs and trying to decipher a sailor’s messy handwriting. It may seem like just a hobby, but in reality, it was scientific work and it grew quickly. By March 2013, this crowdsourcing project called “Old Weather-Arctic” had become something huge. More than 16,000 volunteers were helping transcribe more than 275,000 handwritten pages from old ships of the U.S…
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