Transcribing Historical Play-by-play Data - RGC Study

This is online documentation of the RGC study

This page contains notes for discussion.

2017 Season (Baseline)

We will need to show the volunteers that this is the end result of their work (though with gaps due to the source of the play-by-play data as in paper form rather than digital)

1992 Season

Looks like we'll need to go with two person teams: One person reciting data and one person typing data in. The rationale for this decision is that the focus of the RGC-funded research is to measure the amount of recoverable play-by-play data from the historical documentary record of the Bryant Museum based on two selected years (1992 and 1961). Our secondary goal is the feasibility report. Part of the feasibility report will need to be a recommendation to have resources for enhancing data entry using appropriate software, as is the case for Old Weather (Old Weather Transcribing Guide: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4690.0 ... note also that the transcribing activities of Old Weather are aimed at "off site" volunteers who are logging into a crowdsourcing platform from a distance. This possibility will also need to be discussed in the feasibility report.)

1961 Season

While were in process with 1992 crowdsourcing activities with volunteers, we need to ask those who would be interested in the 1961 transcribing, which involves more cognitive effort in that it requires reading articles versus a straight data transcribing process.