I'm pleased to report that my cousin Linda Tucker has finished transcribing the 1919 diary. I've been trying my best to keep up with her speed, but she's able to transcribe two pages in the amount of time it takes me to edit and annotate a single, simple page. If the editing work requires more extensive research, or (worse) reveals the need to re-do several previous pages, … [Read more...] about Feature: Editorial Toolkit
GoogleFight Resolves Unclear Handwriting
I've spent the last couple of weeks as a FromThePage user working seriously on annotation. This mainly involves identifying the people and events mentioned in Julia Brumfield's 1918 diary and writing short articles to appear as hyperlinked pages within the website, or be printed as footnotes following the first mention of the subject. Although my primary resource is a … [Read more...] about GoogleFight Resolves Unclear Handwriting
Progress Report: Eight Months after THATCamp
It's been more than half a year since I've updated this blog. During that period, due to some events in my personal life, I was only able to spend a month or so on sustained development, but nevertheless made some real progress. The big news is that I announced the project to some interested family members and have acquired one serious user. My cousin-in-law, Linda Tucker, … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Eight Months after THATCamp
Workflow: flags, tags, or ratings?
Over the past couple of months, I've gotten a lot of user feedback relating to workflow. Paraphrased, they include: How do I mark a page "unfinished"? I've typed up half of it and want to return later. How do I see all the pages that need transcription? I don't know where to start! I'm not sure about the names or handwriting in this page. How do I ask someone else to … [Read more...] about Workflow: flags, tags, or ratings?
THATCamp Takeaways
I just got back from THATCamp, and man, what a ride! I've never been to a conference with this level of collaboration before -- neither academic nor technical. Literally nobody was "audience" -- I don't think a single person emerged from the conference without having presented in at least one session, and pitched in their ideas in half a dozen more. To my astonishment, I … [Read more...] about THATCamp Takeaways