Crowdsourced transcription projects--and FromThePage in particular--have gotten some really nice press in the last few weeks. Konrad Lawson posted an excellent review of Scripto and FromThePage on the ProfHacker blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education: Crowdsourcing Transcription: FromThePage and Scripto. Francine Diep wrote a great article on the phenomenon at Innovation … [Read more...] about We Get Press!
A Developer Goes to AHA2012
Last Sunday I returned from the 2012 meeting of the American Historical Association. Although I have attended my share of conferences and unconferences--from Lone Star Ruby Con to Dreamforce and Texas State Historical Association to Museum Computer Network--I'd never attended one of the big mid-year academic conferences before. The experience was strange but … [Read more...] about A Developer Goes to AHA2012
Developments in Wikisource/ProofreadPage for Transcription
Last year I reviewed Wikisource as a platform for manuscript transcription projects, concluding that the ProofreadPage plug-in was quite versatile, but that unfortunately the en.wikisource.org policy prohibiting any text not already published on paper ruled out its use for manuscripts. I'm pleased to report that this policy has been softened. About a month ago, NARA started … [Read more...] about Developments in Wikisource/ProofreadPage for Transcription
Crowdsourcing Transcription at MCN 2011
MCN2011 Crowdsourcing Transcription View more presentations from benwbrum. These are links to the papers, websites, and systems mentioned in my presentation at the Museum Computer Network 2011 conference. Can't OCR Cursive "Toward Searchable Indexes for Handwritten Documents", Kennard and Barrett Genealogy FamilySearch Indexing Facebook Page BYU Historic … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing Transcription at MCN 2011
Programmers: Wikisource Needs You!
Wikisource is powered by a MediaWiki extension which allows page images to be displayed beside the wiki editing form. This extension also handles editorial workflow by allowing pages, chapters, and books to be marked as unedited, partially edited, in need of review, or finished. It's a fine system, and while the policy of the English language Wikisource community prevents it … [Read more...] about Programmers: Wikisource Needs You!