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  • "Boldly Forward in the Digital Age" by Scotty E. Kirkland

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    Top Tips from a Crowdsourcerer
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    Public Crowdsourcing or Private Collaboration?
  • An Interview with Richard Gilreath of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission

    An Interview with Richard Gilreath of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission

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What to Do When Your Transcribers Can’t Read Cursive

One of the common complaints I hear is that young volunteers or students can’t read cursive. While it’s true that many students are not taught cursive as part of their school curriculum, that isn't an insurmountable barrier to participating in a transcription project. The medieval and early modern transcription projects on FromThePage are written in […]

Teaching With Primary Sources on FromThePage

Last month, Ben and Sara Brumfield hosted a webinar on teaching with primary sources using FromThePage. The presentation, linked below in a video and embedded as slides, presents a walkthrough of how scholars can use FromThePage in the classroom. You can sign up for future webinars here. Watch the recording of the presentation below:  Read through […]

"Boldly Forward in the Digital Age" by Scotty E. Kirkland

Top Tips from a Crowdsourcerer

We've worked with Meredith McDonough at the Alabama Department of Archives and History since 2018; you may have heard us talking about her very successful WWI Service Cards project -- 111,000 cards indexed in 2 1/2 months.  We recently interviewed Meredith for our blog, and her advice is so great that I wanted to share […]

Public Crowdsourcing or Private Collaboration?

Crowdsourcing connotes a big, public project that anyone can work on, but what you may not know is that about a third of the activity we see on FromThePage happens within private projects -- ones where you have to be invited to transcribe. Since these are invisible, I thought I’d highlight how some institutions are […]

An Interview with Richard Gilreath of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Richard Gilreath of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Richard Gilreath is the Reference Archivist of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. First, tell us about your documents. We’re transcribing two indexes […]

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