Translations:Wikimedia Foundation GLAM team/Office Hours/November 2020/19/en

In 2020, the National Library of Scotland’s building closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and they wanted a productive and valuable work-from-home activity for staff. They had a longstanding collaboration with Wikimedia UK and had already considered using Wikisource as an alternative to their in-house OCR, which is auto-generated with no facility to correct it. They decided to correct the OCR for a collection of over 3,000 Scottish chapbooks, which had been recently digitized and made available on the Library's Digital Gallery. The chapbooks covered a wide range of topics and at just 10-20 pages per book, could be transcribed in a day.