The last few weeks have seen the announcement of two new transcription projects. I'm particularly excited about them because--like FromThePage--their manuscripts are diaries and they plan to open the transcription tasks to the public. Dear Diary announces the digitization of University of Iowa's Historic Iowa Children's Diaries: We have a deep love for historic diaries as … [Read more...] about Two New Diary Transcription Projects
Archives for December 2010
NABPP Transcription User Survey Results
The ever-innovative North American Bird Phenology Program has just released the results of their user satisfaction survey. In addition to offering kudos to the NABPP for pleasing its users--who had transcribed 346,786 species observation cards as of November--I'd like to highlight some of the survey results -- after all, this is the first user survey for a transcription tool … [Read more...] about NABPP Transcription User Survey Results
Militieregisters.nl and Velehanden.nl
Militieregisters.nl is a new transcription project organized by the City Archive Amsterdam that plans to use crowdsourcing to index militia registers from several Dutch archives. It's quite ambitious, and there are a number of innovative features about the project I'd like to address. However, I haven't seen any English-language coverage of the project so I'll try to … [Read more...] about Militieregisters.nl and Velehanden.nl
Errata
Two important errata in previous posts are worth highlighting: Wikisource for Manuscript Transcription Commenters on my most recent post, "Wikisource for Manuscript Transcription" have pointed out that the Wikisource rule prohibiting the addition of unpublished works--thereby almost entirely prohibiting manuscript transcription projects--is specific to the language domains. … [Read more...] about Errata