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Collaborative projects in the BNE: a geographic dictionary of 19th century

Recently the platform of collaborative projects ComunidadBNE of the National Library of Spain (BNE) has been presented, which allows to participate to someone who is interested in, in labelling, transcription, identification and geolocalization of texts, photos and all kid of documents of its holdings.

Between the projects that they are developing robot now highlights the transcription of Descripción geográfica de la España antigua, y su correspondencia con la moderna, a geographic handed dictionary made in the 19th century by the Swedish diplomat Gustaf Daniel Lorichs. There is no printed edition. 

You can access directly to the project through the web.