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Nelleke van ZeelandVeleHanden: the crowd as a valuable sourceThe online platform VeleHanden.nl (literally: Many Hands) was initiated in 2011. Originally, it was a new way of indexing scans of registers. Millions of names, addresses and dates were transcribed by thousands of online volunteers. All these written data are now findable in a ‘Google’ way. Because VeleHanden was such a success, we could develop new types of projects and fortunately the crowd remained enthusiastic. Nelleke van Zeeland (Amsterdam City Archives) will take you along this development of VeleHanden. What is the key to success with online volunteers? What are the dos and don’ts? How do we connect with our crowd?Kurzbiographie Nelleke van ZeelandNelleke van Zeeland (1983) works at the Amsterdam City Archives as project leader digitization and crowdsourcing since 2010. She was concerned with VeleHanden from the start. Over the past years she has developed new types of crowdsourcing projects, like image selection, photo tagging andgeoreferencing. Next to crowdsourcing, she works on all kinds of digitization projects and the general digital services of the Amsterdam City Archives.&#160;Drei Fragen an...