Riley Bogran of the Sandy Spring Museum kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Bogran is the Transcription Coordinator at Sandy Spring Museum. First, tell us about your documents. We have a large collection of historic documents related to the Quaker communities […]
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An Interview with Sara David of the Nantucket Historical Association
Sara David of the Nantucket Historical Association kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. David is the Digitization Archivist at the Nantucket Historical Association. First, tell us about your documents. The focus for our first attempt at transcription has been our […]
An Interview with Daniel Hartwig & Hannah Scates Kettler of the Iowa State University Library
Daniel Hartwig and Hannah Scates Kettler of the Iowa State University Library kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Hartwig is the Head of Special Collections and University Archives at Iowa State University, while Kettler serves as the Head of Digital […]
An Interview with Heather Home & Jeremy Heil of Queen’s University Archives
Heather Home and Jeremy Heil of Queen’s University Archives kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Heil is the Digital and Private Records Archivist for the Archives, while Home serves as their Public Services and Private Records Archivist. First, tell us […]
On Competitive Transcription
I don’t think I have been on a team since high school. Who knew that competitive transcription would inspire a sense of exhilaration and shared purpose that I had not experienced in decades? I forgot to eat. I slept poorly. I neglected my job. I talked to old friends unexpectedly and made news ones. It was […]
An Interview with Kristin Jensen of BookTraces.org
Kristin Jensen of the Book Traces project at the University of Virginia kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Book Traces is a collaborative web project aimed at discovering, cataloging, and preserving unique copies of 19th and early 2oth century books […]