Preparing the British Museum Bronze Age index for transcription

Authors: Jennifer Wexler

Since late 2013, the MicroPasts team has been preparing the British Museum‘s (BM) Bronze Age Index to be the first offering on our crowd-sourcing platform. This corpus consists of around 30,000 (roughly A4 sized) cards (holding information going back to as early as 1913). The majority of these are double sided and generally have text on the front and a line drawing on the reverse (there are many…