Well, that was fast! Four days after announcing that this blog would take a speculative turn (read "stall") while I spent months on article links, linking pages to articles works! It only took me about ten hours of coding and research to learn to use the XML parser, write the article and link schema, process typed transcriptions into a canonical XML form with appropriate … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Article Links
Archives for June 2007
Matt Unger on Article Links
Matt Unger has been kind enough to send his ideas on article links within transcription software. I've posted my plans here before, but Matt's ideas are borne of his experience after six months of work on Papa's Diary. Some of his ideas are already included by my link feature, others may inform FromThePage, but I think his specification is worth posting in its entirety. If … [Read more...] about Matt Unger on Article Links
Feature: Illegible Tags
Illegible tags allow a scribe to mark a piece of text as illegible with a tag, linking that tag to a cropped image from the text. The application does the cropping itself, allowing the user to draw a rectangle around the illegible chunk on their web-browser and then presenting that as a link for insertion into their transcription as mark-up. The open questions I have regard … [Read more...] about Feature: Illegible Tags
Matt Unger's Papa's Diary Project
Of all the online transcriptions I've seen so far, Papa's Diary Project does the most with the least. Matt Unger is transcribing and annotating his grandfather's 1924 diary, then posting one entry per day. So far as I'm able to tell, he's not using any technology more complicated than a scanner, some basic image processing software, and Blogger. Matt's annotations are really … [Read more...] about Matt Unger's Papa's Diary Project
Progress Report: Transcription Access Controls
I've just checked in transcription authorization, completing the security tasks a work owner may perform. I decided that owners should be able to mark work as unrestricted -- any logged-in user may transcribe that work. Otherwise, owners specify which users may transcribe or modify transcriptions. These administrative features have been some of the quickest to implement, … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Transcription Access Controls