Volunteer transcription project celebrated

The University of Portsmouth’s GB1900 project transcribed more than 2.5 million items

A major project mapping place names celebrated its completion and announced its plans for the future at an event held in London on 9 July. The crowdsourcing project GB1900 (gb1900.org) was coordinated by a team based at the University of Portsmouth, and asked volunteers to transcribe place names and other elements marked on historic six-inch Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain, originally digitised by the National Library of Scotland. GB1900 launched in September 2016 and closed to new transcriptions in January this year after more than 2.5 million items had been transcribed, creating arguably the largest historical gazetteer of Britain ever. It also located 300,000 pumps and wells, 300,000 historical footpaths and just about every windmill. The data collected is already enabling users of maps on the National Library of Scotland’s website to…

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Who Do You Think You Are? (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2018

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