Shanna Raines of the Greenville County Library System kindly took the time to answer questions and discuss their projects and experience using the platform with Sara Brumfield of FromThePage. Shanna Raines is the South Carolina Room Supervisor of the Hughes Main Library of the Greenville County Library System. First, tell us about your documents. The Greenville County […]
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Transcriptions, Screen Readers, and ChatGPT
Usually, when we transcribe documents, we type what we see, retaining irregular spelling and punctuation. But does this practice–a scholarly standard–serve everyone? I wondered how screen readers deal with verbatim transcriptions, so I ran an experiment. I used Microsoft Narrator, the screen reader built into Windows, to read passages aloud from a 19th-century farm diary, […]
What Machines Can’t Replace: Old Fashioned Human Efforts
Let’s talk about transcription in scholarly editions – those collections of “papers” by or about historical or literary figures, published for readers and researchers. There are basically three ways edition projects transcribe papers. The first is the old-school way with staff members doing it manually. The second is a group effort, which can be done […]
An Interview with Jodi Hoover of Digital Maryland
Jodi Hoover of Digital Maryland kindly took the time to answer questions and discuss their projects and experience using the platform with Sara Brumfield of FromThePage. Jodi Hoover is the Librarian Supervisor II of Digital Resources at the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the supervisor of Digital Maryland. First, tell us about your documents. Our […]
An Interview with Michael Lapides of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Michael Lapides of the New Bedford Whaling Museum kindly took the time to answer questions and discuss their project and experience using the platform with Sara Brumfield of FromThePage. Michael Lapides is the Director of Digital Engagement at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. First, tell us about your documents. The New Bedford Whaling Museum's archival […]
Archives as an Antidote for ChatGPT
I wanted to write this month about ChatGPT, and how archives are about as anti-ChatGPT as you can get. Archives can provide learning experiences that ChatGPT can’t fake. First, a simplification that’s useful in thinking about what ChatGPT (and its ilk) can – and can’t – do. ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a “large language […]