Facing Budget Woes, Prominent Crowdsourcing Project Will Scale Back - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Even crowdsourcing can cost money. That reality is forcing scholars to scale back a groundbreaking project that relies on volunteers to transcribe the unpublished manuscripts of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham. University College London’s Transcribe Bentham project gained widespread attention as a potentially powerful new way to speed up scholarly work. But the project still required money to pay for computer programming, photography, and research associates who vet the quality of volunteers’ submissions. Now its government grant is coming to an end, meaning the associates will have to be laid off unless more money can be found...."