Olivia Carlisle of the State Archives of North Carolina kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Olivia Carlisle is the Information Management Archivist at the State Archives of North Carolina. First, tell us about your documents. Our work with FromThePage started with an NHPRC […]
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An Interview with Amber Kuo of the LA County Public Library
Amber Kuo of the LA County Public Library kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Her colleague, Kascia Samel, librarian at American Indian Resource Center, also contributed to this interview. Amber Kuo is the Cataloging Librarian at the LA County Public […]
An Interview with Meredith McDonough of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Meredith McDonough of the Alabama Department of Archives and History kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Meredith McDonough is the Archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Meredith McDonough at ADAH is one of our most experienced crowdsourcerers and […]
Push vs Pull Crowdsourcing
Maybe you’re running a crowdsourcing project because your boss thought it would be a good idea. Maybe your outreach person came to you with the idea. Maybe you heard about it at a conference and love the idea of engaging the public with your documents in the deep way transcription allows. I call these “push” […]
FromThePage vs Zooniverse
In the post below, we assess the differences between our software, and our peer Zooniverse, another popular crowdsourcing transcription platform. Both platforms have supported text transcription for over a decade. FromThePage was designed specifically for text transcription, while Zooniverse has its origins in image sorting tasks and decision-tree tasks. The ways in which volunteers interact […]
An Interview with Rebecca Dillmeier of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rebecca Dillmeier of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Rebecca Dillmeier is the Digital Collections Manager of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. First, tell us about your documents. The Museum’s National Institute for […]