(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
Text Beyond Annotations at IIIF-Vatican
On June 8, 2017, Patrick Cuba, John Howard, Peter Robinson, Jeffrey Witt and I organized a discussion session for the IIIF conference hosted by the Vatican Library. We wanted to explore our efforts to utilize IIIF in our existing, manuscript-based textual projects, from crowdsourced transcription to documentary editing to textual scholarship. The urgency of this conversation … [Read more...] about Text Beyond Annotations at IIIF-Vatican
Introduction to IIIF at TCDL 2017
On May 25, I spoke on a panel at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries with Liz Gushee from the Harry Ransom Center and Benjamin Albritton from Stanford University. Texas has seen little adoption of IIIF to date, and--aside from Brumfield Labs--the only participants I've seen in the community calls are the Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin and the Jubilees Palimpsest … [Read more...] about Introduction to IIIF at TCDL 2017
Wikilinks in FromThePage
From March 10-12, I got to participate in the iDigBio Original Sources Digitization Workshop, a gathering of natural history collections managers, archivists, and technologists. Although the focus of digitization within natural history has been on specimens or specimen labels, this workshop sought to address the challenges and opportunities involved in digitizing ledgers, field … [Read more...] about Wikilinks in FromThePage