Price the Vintage

Price the Vintage was a crowdsourcing web application used to help make historic wine catalogs searchable by transcribing the information seen on the pages.

I led the design of the application used to transcribe the hundreds of digitized catalogs from famed wine and spirits distributor, Sherry-Lehman. Dating back to the late 1930s, these beautiful illustrated brochures list prices from thousands of now rare bottles, helping to chart America’s appreciation for wine from France, Spain, Italy, and beyond.

Using the Price the Vintage application, users could select any catalog from the collection, place a pin, and transcribe the information seen on the page. Icon indicators showed where other users were actively working on to avoid input redundancies.

Price the Vintage is no longer available online, but the metadata acquired has been extracted for use in other projects.