Meg L. Winslow and Thom Burns of the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discusses their project and experience using the platform. Winslow is Curator of the Historical Collections & Archives at Mount Auburn Cemetery, where she oversees the Cemetery’s permanent collections […]
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An Interview with Jeanie Fisher of the Seattle Municipal Archives
Jeanie Fisher of the Seattle Municipal Archives kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discusses their project and experience using the platform. First, tell us about your documents Most of the records we currently have up on FromThePage come from our General Files collection, which consists of records […]
An Interview with David Caldwell of The New England Wireless & Steam Museum
David Caldwell of The New England Wireless & Steam Museum kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discusses their project and experience using the platform. First, tell us about your documents.The New England Wireless & Steam Museum is a museum of engineering and technology with a collection of working steam […]
Interview: Dr. Laura Morreale on Teaching and Collaborative Research in FromThePage
An interview with Laura Morreale, Independent Scholar of Medieval Francophonie and Italian Historiographies. Laura spearheaded support for translation in FromThePage, and we’ve big fans of her innovative work combining collaboration, transcription, digital humanities, and medieval manuscripts. Her thoughts on teaching using FromThePage are particularly timely. First, tell us about your documents. I am a medievalist, […]
NEH to fund better internationalization and integration in FromThePage
We are thrilled to announce the award of a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Advanced Grant to our collaborators at University of Texas Libraries and LLILAS Benson Center This work will fund important enhancements to FromThePage. Multilingual Support While FromThePage supports transcribing text in any Unicode-supported script, the application interface itself has only been […]
The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription
Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as “the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on.” This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked like in 2010 It’s interesting to look back at 2010 to see what’s happened to […]