This platform enables open and distributed collaborative work on the Biblioteca Nacional de España digital collections by developing enrichment projects for the collective generation of new knowledge.
Crowdsourcing allows anyone to get involved in tasks that will add enormous value to our collections, allowing us to delve deeper, rethink and reuse our heritage with collaboration and collective intelligence.
The results of the tasks we propose will be validated with a specific process for each project, and then included in our catalogues (bibliographic, authorities, etc.) or associated with the digital objects in the Hispanic Digital Library or the Digital Periodical and Newspaper Library, to search for and recover this enriched information.
The comunidad.bne.es platform (BNE Community) was created by proposing transcription, identification, georeferencing and enrichment projects such as:
- The limelight: project to transcribe and identify the theatre poster collection.
- Who is who: project to identify and tag individuals portrayed in monographs.
- To my distinguished friend: project to transcribe dedications on photographs and postcards.
- Jean Laurent was here: project to georeference the collection of photographs by Jean Laurent in Spain.
- Unidentified: project to identity anonymous individuals in the collection of Spanish Civil War photographs.
- What does it sound like: project to enrich authority records for musical groups and bands.
- A dictionary, a Swedish diplomat and Spain in the 19th century: project to label, transcribe and georeference a geographic dictionary manuscript.
After these initial projects, many more have been published since … and many more are yet to come! Do you have a proposal? Contact us!
Explore the platform, choose your project and start contributing to the collective knowledge preserved at the National Library of Spain.
Comunidad.bne.es was built using Pybossa, an open source technology that has been developed to add new features and will continue to be enriched with new elements along the coming months. Developments are also available as open source code in BNElab GitHub account: