Jennifer Noffze, Collections Manager at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, kindly spoke with Sara Brumfield about her experience using FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents. Our collection includes over 6,000 letters written to Ryan White along with condolence cards sent to his mother, Jeanne White Ginder. Ryan was an Indiana teenager who became internationally […]
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What We Learned Building Spreadsheet Transcription
We recently released our new spreadsheet transcription feature, and we're excited about how it can unlock structured data in your collections -- everything from scientific observations to census data. We're already seeing successful & diverse projects like Sewanee's Convict Leasing Transcription Project (part of their Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation) the Indiana State […]
An Interview with Dr. Camille Westmont of Sewanee: The University of the South
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 […]
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, […]