When I first started this blog, I spent a lot of time writing detailed reviews of different transcription projects. This has become difficult as my available time shrinks and the number of crowdsourcing projects grows. So when Kate Bowers posted to the Society of American Archivists mailing list asking for a directory of transcription tools, I figured it was time to … [Read more...] about Crowdsourced Transcription Tool List
French Departmental Archive on Wikisource
While the transcription world buzzes with news of the release of the 1940 US census and the crowdsourced transcription projects that surround it, I'd like to draw your attention to a blog post published last week on La Tribune des Archives: "Edition collaborative de manuscrits sur Wikisource : 1er retour d'expérience". The post covers the efforts of the archives of the … [Read more...] about French Departmental Archive on Wikisource
Crowdsourcing at IMLS WebWise 2012
The video of the crowdsourcing panel at IMLS WebWise is online, so I thought I'd post my talk. Like anyone who's created a transcript of their own unscripted remarks, I recommend watching the video. (My bit starts at 6:00, though all the speakers were excellent. Full-screening will hide the slides.) Nevertheless, I've added hyperlinks to the transcript and interpolated the … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing at IMLS WebWise 2012
Jumping In With Both Feet
Although I didn't know it at the time, since I began work on FromThePage in 2005 I've had one toe in the digital humanities community. I've worked on FromThePage and I've blogged about crowdsourced manuscript transcription. I've met some smart, friendly people doing fascinating things and I've even taught some of them the magic of regular expressions. But I've … [Read more...] about Jumping In With Both Feet
Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription
Whenever I talk about crowd-sourced transcription--actually whenever I talk about crowdsourced anything--the first question people ask is about accuracy. Nobody trusts the public add to an institution's data/meta-data, nor especially to correct it. However, quality control over data entry is a well-explored problem, and while I'm not familiar with the literature from industry … [Read more...] about Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription