Transcribing Early Modern Recipes with the crowd on Shakespeare's World

By Victoria Van Hyning and Paul Dingman Shakespeare's World. http://www.shakespearesworld.org/#/ Image courtesy of Paul Dingman. Since the launch of the Shakespeare's World crowdsourcing website on December 10, 2015, transcribing receipt book manuscripts has become a highly interesting and fun (some even say “addictive”) project for numerous users, a.k.a. "citizen humanists," around the world. They come from many walks of life, and many have never studied paleography, but they are keen to co..