Nos complace anunciar que Pelagios Commons ha otorgado una Resource Development Grant (RDG 2018) a un equipo internacional conformado por investigadores y desarrolladores en humanidades digitales de Brumfield Labs, LLILAS Benson, World Historical Gazetteer y CONICET-Argentina. El proyecto LatAm desarrollará un gazetteer o nomenclátor a partir de un conjunto de datos de la … [Read more...] about LatAm: un gazetteer histórico para América Latina y el Caribe
LatAm: A Historical Gazetteer for Latin America and the Caribbean
We are pleased to announce that Pelagios Commons has awarded a Resource Development Grant to an international collaboration of digital humanities scholars from Brumfield Labs, LLILAS Benson, World Historical Gazetteer, and CONICET. The collaboration will develop a linked dataset for colonial Latin America, based on Anntonio de Alcedo’s Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las … [Read more...] about LatAm: A Historical Gazetteer for Latin America and the Caribbean
New IIIF Support in FromThePage
The latest version of the FromThePage crowdsourcing platform includes major enhancements to its IIIF support. The full documentation is available at FromThePage Support for the IIIF Presentation API and Web Annotations, but here are some highlights: Collection Import Launching a large crowdsourcing project from a IIIF-compliant digital library system is now easier and more … [Read more...] about New IIIF Support in FromThePage
Crowdsourcing OCR Correction vs. Manuscript Transcription
(This is a repost of a reply to a query about crowdsourced OCR correction on the Museums Computer Group list. You can find the original here.) Many people have pointed to some excellent crowdsourcing platforms, but I wanted to weigh in on OCR correction as a crowdsourcing task distinct from manuscript transcription. Some excellent platforms (including ones suggested) won't … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing OCR Correction vs. Manuscript Transcription
Preservable Digital Editions at AHA2018
This post is transcript of my presentation at the 2018 meeting of the American Historical Association, on the panel Primary Sources and the Historical Profession in the Age of Text Search, Part 3: Digital Texts and the Future of Digital History: Challenges, Opportunities, and Experimentation in Digital Documentary Editing, including slides and audio. Good morning. … [Read more...] about Preservable Digital Editions at AHA2018