Via Twitter and the TEI-L mailing list, I see that Jens Brokfeld, a graduate student in Potsdam, is conducting a survey of projects using transcription tools for his thesis, “Creating Digital Editions with Crowdsourced Manuscript Transcription: A Tool Evaluation”. I encourage readers of this blog to take the survey and help advance the field. In case that your … [Read more...] about Survey on Crowdsourced Transcription Tools
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Transcription Tools at TCDL 2012
Yesterday I presented a guide to choosing software for crowdsourced manuscript transcription at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Here are the slides from that talk: … [Read more...] about Transcription Tools at TCDL 2012
Bending Regular Expressions to Express Uncertainty
This post expands upon an email I sent to James Edward Gray II, my mentor in regular expressions, whom I thank for his generosity. For the last few months--ever since I started conducting regular expression workshops at THATCamps--I've been thinking about using regular expressions to represent uncertainty. The great power of the regex is its ability to define context, … [Read more...] about Bending Regular Expressions to Express Uncertainty