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A Crowdsourcing Platform for Wales

The National Library of Wales has developed a crowdsourcing platform that enables volunteers throughout Wales and beyond to help us interpret and enrich some of our national collections.

You can contribute to the platform from your home, or anywhere with wi-fi access.

Main tasks

  • Transcribing text.
  • Tagging people, places, events, etc.
  • Enriching data.

Essential

  • IT skills.
  • The ability to follow online guidelines.
  • Attention to detail. 

Desirable

  • An interest in Welsh history and culture.

Time and commitment

  • As little or as much time as you can spare us.

What next?

  • Select a current project to work on.
  • Sign up / Login.
  • Download the guidelines found on the front page of each project. 

Current Crowdsourcing Projects

Tag items from our drawing volume collection to make them easier to discover online.

In 1923, following the First World War, nearly 400,000 Welsh women signed a petition calling for world peace. A century later the petition has returned to Wales and everyone can take part in the work of transcribing the signatures, bringing this history to life. Join the effort today!


Collaborative Crowdsourcing Projects

Crowd Cymru is a collaborative project to develop an online volunteering community for Wales.

Volunteers are invited to tag, index and transcribe documents to make them more accessible for researchers.

Picturing Pennant: The Extra Illustrated Tours of Wales and Scotland by Thomas Pennant

Tag the people, places, plants, animals and other images from the 18th century naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant’s Extra Illustrated Tours of Wales and Scotland.