A couple of recent interactions have made me realize that I've never publicly articulated my goals in developing FromThePage. Like anyone else managing a multi-year project, my objectives have shifted over time. However, there are three main themes of my work developing web-based software for transcribing handwritten documents: Transcribing and publishing family diaries. … [Read more...] about My Goals for FromThePage
Archives for February 2011
2010: The Year of Crowdsourcing Transcription
2010 was the year that collaborative manuscript transcription finally caught on. Back when I started work on FromThePage in 2005, I got the same response from most people I told about the project: "Why don't you just use OCR software?" To say that the challenges of digitizing handwritten material were poorly understood might be inaccurate—after all the TEI standard included … [Read more...] about 2010: The Year of Crowdsourcing Transcription