This is a transcript of the talk I gave at Digital Frontiers 2012. Abstract: One of the ironies of the Internet age is that traditional standards for accessibility have changed radically. Intelligent members of the public refer to undigitized manuscripts held in a research library as "locked away", even though anyone may study the well-cataloged, well-preserved material in the … [Read more...] about Bilateral Digitization at Digital Frontiers 2012
RMagick Lightning Talk at Austin On Rails
This is a transcript of my five-minute lightning talk at the July meeting of Austin On Rails, the local Ruby on Rails user group. It highlights a few things I've learned from my work on MyopicVicar and Autosplit. Hi everyone, I'm Ben Brumfield and I've been a professional Ruby on Rails developer for three whole months, [applause] and I am here to talk about RMagick! … [Read more...] about RMagick Lightning Talk at Austin On Rails
Survey on Crowdsourced Transcription Tools
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
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