Guidance on Crowd Capture to Extract Location Data from Archived Material
This guide provides advice on extracting location data from archive materials such as paper maps, reports and other old data files/formats converted to electronic images or PDFs.
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This guidance specifically relates to the set-up and delivery of crowd capture projects that are run online. meaning that both the scanned data and the crowd capture activity are made available to the ‘crowd’ to undertake and deliver through an online platform. It addresses questions related to project set up and cost including time/staff resource requirements, narrative building and engaging a crowd.
This guidance does not refer to working with a crowd of volunteers in person or in the field. Also, this guidance note specifically refers to the capture of data from archive materials and does not refer to the generation or capture of entirely new location data.