📢THE WILLS PROJECT IS NOW LIVE ON ZOONIVERSE 📢
And now we need your help!
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmith/the-material-culture-of-wills-england-1540-1790
Using cutting edge technology we've generated transcriptions of 25,000 wills, now we need participants to check & correct them
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🗃️ #skystorians #EarlyModern #CitizenScience
And now we need your help!
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmith/the-material-culture-of-wills-england-1540-1790
Using cutting edge technology we've generated transcriptions of 25,000 wills, now we need participants to check & correct them
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🗃️ #skystorians #EarlyModern #CitizenScience
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📜 You can contribute to our project by completing bite-size tasks on Zooniverse:
> Choose workflow
> Compare line from a will with generated transcription
> Confirm or correct
> Click Done
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https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmith/the-material-culture-of-wills-england-1540-1790
#skystorians #EarlyModern 🗃️
⌛️Complete as many lines as you like in your own time
✍️Learn & practice palaeography with our Field Guide
📈Register on Zooniverse to track your contributions
👄Visit Talk Boards to chat to us & other volunteers
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With your help we can create transcriptions of the largest ever sample of wills & explore how ownership of, & attitudes towards objects changed in England 1540-1790.
📜 Join in now!
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmith/the-material-culture-of-wills-england-1540-1790
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Or on the project website https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/volunteers/.
Thanks for your interest!