I spent part of this week at Duke University with the Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing -- Josh Sosin, Hugh Cayless, and Ryan Baumann. We discussed ideas for mobile epigraphy applications, argued about text encoding, and did some hacking. We loaded an instance of FromThePage onto the DC3's development machine, seeded it with the 1859 journal of Viscontess Emily Anne … [Read more...] about "The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University
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"The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University
In 2013, Ben Brumfield gave an introductory talk on crowdsourced manuscript transcription at the Perkins Library: "The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University. Watch the recording of the presentation below: Read Ben's presentation below: I'd like to talk about what transcription is. We're all dealing with problems of, most of us … [Read more...] about "The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University