Australian Museum - DigiVol Online

DigiVol is a crowdsourcing platform that was developed by the Australian Museum in collaboration with the Atlas of Living Australia. DigiVol is used by many institutions around the world as a way of combining the efforts of many volunteers to digitise their data. This data may be in the form of museum object labels, field notebooks and diaries, recording sheets, registers or photographs. There are many ways of extracting information or data from images depending on what the end use will be. Some data can be extracted from museum labels and field notebooks by transcribing (or typing out) the handwritten words. Other forms of collecting data may be by tagging images or identifying animals and their behaviour in the images. DigiVol uses several approaches of data collection in its website. Online volunteers are presented with tutorials to help them get started in joining a project (virtual expedition).