We've been talking about review & quality control in the last couple of newsletters. Today, we're going to talk about one of the simplest ways to do a quick review for quality: scanning spreadsheets of transcribed data. Our very first field-based transcription project was the World War I Service Cards project at the Alabama Department […]
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What is Responsible AI?
I recently returned from the AI4LAM/Fantastic Futures conference, where the goal of ethical or responsible AI was a theme in a number of the presentations. For an implementer like me, however, responsible AI can't be just a call for action. I need examples, criteria, how-tos on how to build ethical AI solutions. At this stage […]
Make Reviewing Easier
People often worry about the quality of crowdsourced transcriptions – and we get it. Strangers, from the internet, working on your material? Yikes! But here’s the deal: many of them won’t be strangers long. The intrinsic motivation our volunteers have and their understanding of how important your material is to historians and genealogists, makes them […]
An Interview with Dr. Christina Lee of Princeton University
Dr. Christina H. Lee of Princeton University kindly took the time to answer questions and discuss their projects and experience using the platform with Sara Brumfield of FromThePage. Dr. Christina H. Lee is the Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. First, tell us about your documents. These are […]
Could Chain of Density Prompts be Used for Finding Aids?
I tend to call GPT-generated text “lardy” – too many words without a lot of meaning. GPT is in desperate need of a copy editor. For writing summarizations that might be used in a finding aid, this is NOT what you want. You want to capture the essence of a document or file in as […]
How Good Is Good Enough? Reviewing Transcriptions.
How good is good enough for your transcription project? We all have a tendency to want things to be “perfect”. Some of us even have a legal obligation for things to be “good”. But humans aren’t perfect. We’ve talked about the errors medieval scribes made transcribing – and they were professionals! Humans today also make […]