On August 2, 2018, Meredith McDonough of the Alabama Department of Archives and History and Ben Brumfield of Brumfield Labs presented "Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records" at the CONTENTdm User Meeting. Our fellow panelists were Phil Sager and Kristen Newby of the Ohio History Connection, who presented on the crowdsourced transcription system they had built … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records
Crowdsourcing with CONTENTdm and FromThePage
We are pleased to announce that FromThePage now integrates with CONTENTdm, the digital collections management system created by OCLC. Through this integration, CONTENTdm users can launch crowdsourcing projects on FromThePage without the need for uploading image files, copying metadata, or cut-and-pasting user contributions into their digital collections. How it … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing with CONTENTdm and FromThePage
LatAm: un gazetteer histórico para América Latina y el Caribe
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