Ars Electronica Festival · 2011
Transcribe Bentham
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2011
The artist's “Transcribe Bentham” was honoured with an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2011, category Digital Communities.
_Transcribe Bentham_ is an innovative and pioneering archival crowdsourcing transcription project, which is making available online the vast collection of manuscripts written by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)—the hugely influential philosopher, jurist, and reformer—held by University College London's Special Collections.
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