Digital all year long service opportunities!

Zooniverse: 

The Zooniverse enables everyone to take part in real cutting edge research in many fields across the sciences, humanities, and more. The Zooniverse creates opportunities for you to unlock answers and contribute to real discoveries.

https://www.zooniverse.org

Project Gutenberg:

Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.

During proofreading, volunteers are presented with a scanned page image and the corresponding OCR text on a single web page. This allows the text to be easily compared to the image, proofread, and sent back to the site. A second volunteer is then presented with the first volunteer's work and the same page image, verifies and corrects the work as necessary, and submits it back to the site. The book then similarly progresses through a third proofreading round and two formatting rounds using the same web interface.

Once all the pages have completed these steps, a post-processor carefully assembles them into an e-book, optionally makes it available to interested parties for 'smooth reading', and submits it to the Project Gutenberg archive.

https://www.pgdp.net/c/ 

Librivox:

LibriVox volunteers read and record chapters of books in the public domain (books no longer under copyright) in the USA*, and make them available for free on the Internet. Practically, this means we record books published 95 full years ago or longer. All our recordings (including yours, if you volunteer for us) are also donated into the public domain.

https://librivox.org/pages/volunteer-for-librivox/

Smithsonian:

Smithsonian volunteers play essential roles in sharing our rich collections, exhibitions, research, and educational programming with the public. We are always on the lookout for dynamic, curious individuals who want to be a part of the Smithsonian team. Each year, more than 6,000 volunteers work onsite at our facilities and another 7,500 participate in projects online.

https://www.si.edu/volunteer 

Ancestry:

The Ancestry® World Archives Project is volunteers from around the world creating searchable record indexes from digitized records. We gather historical records and scan them into our system. You look at the records and type out what you see (so that the facts in the records become searchable). The index you create is added to Ancestry’s free collections and is accessible to anyone who wants to search it.

https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Introduction-to-the-World-Archives-Project?language=en_US 

FLOSS Manuals:

FLOSS Manuals is fantastic community to be a part of. There are manuals in many languages on great desktop and android applications. The thing that binds it all together is that these are resources written under a free licence about applications also written under a Free Software licence. The vast majority of all manuals on FM have been created and maintained by people putting in voluntary contributions of their time.

https://www.flossmanuals.org/get-involved-0 

TED Talk Transcription:

Transcribers create original-language subtitles for TEDx talks. Transcribed talks can reach a wider audience because they are...

• accessible to Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers

• indexed on search engines like Google

• able to be translated by TED Translators

https://www.ted.com/participate/translate/transcribe 

Warm up America:

If you can knit a square, you can volunteer!  The Warm Up America! foundation, a 501C3 nonprofit, was founded in 1991 by Evie Rosen. It is committed to motivating, training and coordinating volunteers to knit and crochet afghans and clothing for people in need.

https://www.knittingforcharity.com/start-here 

VocaliD:

The Human Voicebank celebrates the diversity and power of voice. With over 91,000 individuals from all over the world contributing millions of sentences to our platform, we’re building a community that uplifts voices everywhere.

https://vocalid.ai/voicebank/ 

Project Implicit:

The mission of Project Implicit is to educate the public about bias and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the internet. Project Implicit scientists produce high-impact research that forms the basis of our scientific knowledge about bias and disparities.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html 

Dosomething.org:

As the largest not-for-profit exclusively for young people and social change, DoSomething’s millions of members represent every US area code and 131 countries. Using our digital platform, DoSomething members join our volunteer, social change, and civic action campaigns to make real-world impact on causes they care about.

https://www.dosomething.org/us