Dr. Camille Westmont, Visiting Professor of History at the University of the South, kindly spoke with Sara Brumfield about the Convict Leasing Project, and her experience using FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents. The documents we are working to transcribe are the prison records from the Lone Rock Stockade. The Lone Rock […]
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Florence Bürgy on Selecting Material and Designing Projects
This is the first of a short series of posts highlighting the Masters Thesis by Florence Bürgy, Pratiques participatives et patrimoine numérisé : le cas des manuscrits. Réflexion en vue d’un projet de transcription collaborative en Ville de Genève. Bürgy analyzed the crowdsourcing needs of several cultural heritage institutions in Geneva, Switzerland, interviewing experts, testing […]
Textual Corruption is How Our Brains Work
I had a long conversation with my neighbor about theory of mind yesterday, and it's got me thinking about present-day corruption in textual transmission. Cognitive science is not my thing, but he introduced me to Predictive Coding - the idea that our brains are constantly making predictions about the world based on insufficient data, then […]
FromThePage's Spring 2021 Speaking Schedule
Here is a compiled list of all our speaking engagements for April and May 2021, and where you can find more information about each event. ACRL Association of College & Research Libraries Description: Virtual Exhibit Booth Dates: April 13-16 Link: http://www.ala.org/acrl/ MARAC Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Virtual Conference Description: FromThePage Demo & Discussion Date: April 16, […]
An Interview with Allyssa Guzman & Albert Palacios of The University of Texas
Allyssa Guzman and Albert Palacios of the University of Texas at Austin kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Guzman is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, and Palacios is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator at the […]
Classifying the Mistakes We Make When We Transcribe
When we transcribe handwritten text, we make mistakes. We misread words with difficult letters; we accidentally modernize a word with archaic spelling; we skip a line. Everyone does it, and even though we humans don’t make as many mistakes as computers do reading handwriting, that might be small comfort for people who are trying to […]