With 2020 finally behind us, we reflect on all the changes and new features we've launched over the past year at FromThePage. We were always on the lookout for new ways to improve the platform and listened to the feedback you gave to help provide the best experience possible for our project owners and volunteers. As we thrust forward into 2021, we want to share with you some … [Read more...] about Year End Round Up: Product Update Summary for 2020
How to Handle Racial or Ethnic Slurs & Offensive Language in the Sources We Transcribe
I was approached recently by colleagues who’d received a complaint about ethnic slurs in material they’d transcribed, asking for guidance on what to do. We don’t have a firm answer to this question, so I looked around at projects on FromThePage and among the documentary editing and archives communities to see what they’re doing. In traditional print publications, one must … [Read more...] about How to Handle Racial or Ethnic Slurs & Offensive Language in the Sources We Transcribe
NEH to fund better internationalization and integration in FromThePage
We are thrilled to announce the award of a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Advanced Grant to our collaborators at University of Texas Libraries and LLILAS Benson Center. This work will fund important enhancements to FromThePage. Multilingual Support While FromThePage supports transcribing text in any Unicode-supported script, the application interface … [Read more...] about NEH to fund better internationalization and integration in FromThePage
The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription
Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as "the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on." This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked like in 2010 It's interesting to look back at 2010 to see what's happened to the projects I thought were major developments: FamilySearch … [Read more...] about The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription
The Stagville Accounts in DEPCHA: Plantation Financial Records as Linked Data
On March 8, 2018, I presented this talk at a conference at Michigan State called "Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade". The conference was live-streamed, so a video recording of all presentations is available on the MATRIX YouTube channel. My presentation starts at 1:04:55 and is embedded below, followed by slides and text. It's important to begin by … [Read more...] about The Stagville Accounts in DEPCHA: Plantation Financial Records as Linked Data