Using AI to coordinate crowdsourced workflows in a digitization project

paulnovosad · x · 2026-11-09

A fragment of Paul Novosad's thread: in the past, incorporating other people's workflows and understanding everyone's strengths and limitations would have been overwhelming — but AI can now coordinate and bring everyone's work together. The team wants this to be a crowd-sourced project benefiting everyone interested, and invites anyone already working with the handbooks, with parsing scripts or scraped data, to get in touch.

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