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Using Crowdsourced Indexes in Preservica

January 18, 2023 By FromThePage

What can you do with transcripts once your project is done? The Texas Digital Archive transcribed the handwritten index to a 3rd court of appeals and turned it into a look up table by Appellant and Appellee, making their digitized case records much more accessible. The Texas Commission on Libraries and Archives transcribed a handwritten index to their Court of … [Read more...] about Using Crowdsourced Indexes in Preservica

"Boldly Forward in the Digital Age" by Scotty E. Kirkland

July 28, 2022 By FromThePage

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Collaborative effort drives UVa Law Library transcription project

November 27, 2017 By FromThePage

A lovely article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about James Ambuske, one of our collaborators at UVa, and how they are using FromThePage:   “Here in the Law Library, we’re looking for ways to disseminate our collections and make them more widely known,” Ambuske said. “Particularly after the events of early August here in Charlottesville, we’re trying to … [Read more...] about Collaborative effort drives UVa Law Library transcription project

Finding Fine Art and Historical Images for Social Media Uses

September 21, 2017 By FromThePage

My new favorite way to find images for facebook and blog posts is to search the Google Arts & Culture site. (Click the magnifying glass at the top right of this page) I search for "magnifying glass" and after poking around the results find The Senses by Philippe Mercier at the Yale Center for British Art: I follow the external link and find the painting at the YCBA … [Read more...] about Finding Fine Art and Historical Images for Social Media Uses

Finding Transcribers for the Yaquina Lighthouse Project

March 13, 2017 By FromThePage

Finding Similar Pages in Google

One of our recent projects on FromThePage is the Yaquina Lighthouse Collection of documents from the National Archive.  I helped the team at Yaquina brainstorm ways to publicize their project and wanted to share that process here as well.  This was in addition to their existing Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram publicity. I would contact the people/groups you find … [Read more...] about Finding Transcribers for the Yaquina Lighthouse Project

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