Over the last few months, the University of Delaware and the Cecil County Historical Society have been using FromThePage to transcribe the diary of a minister serving in the American Civil War. They're using the project to expose undergraduates to primary sources while also improving access to an important local history document. The county has documented the process … [Read more...] about University of Delaware and Cecil County Historical Society on FromThePage
Archives for July 2013
The Collaborative Future of Amateur Editions
This is the transcript of my talk at Social Digital Scholarly Editing at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon on July 11 2013. I'm Ben Brumfield. I'm not a scholarly editor, I'm an amateur editor and professional software developer. Most of the talks that I give talk about crowdsourcing, and crowdsourcing manuscript transcription, and how to get people … [Read more...] about The Collaborative Future of Amateur Editions