Indexing Challenge Accepted and Bested

By Melody Smith|July 24th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off

FamilySearch International recently announced a worldwide crowdsourcing challenge aimed at establishing a new record for the most volunteer indexing participants online in a single day. Meridian Magazine, brought to us by the Church of the Latter-day Saints, also brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “FamilySearch Announces International Indexing Challenge.”

The challenge took place on Sunday, July 20 with great success. Indexers and arbitrators from around the world joined together to set an international record by surpassing the goal of 50,000 contributors in a 24 hour period. In fact, there were 66,511 participants.

All it takes to be counted in the record is to submit one batch. With hundreds of thousands of past indexing volunteers and thousands more joining, breaking the record was easy.

Melody K. Smith

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About the Author: Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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Indexing Challenge Accepted and Bested