"Volunpeers” is a flexible term for volunteers, organizations, and institutions to succinctly represent the knowledge-building activities and collaborative enterprise in which they are engaged. -Dr. Meghan Ferriter, Project Coordinator, Smithsonian Transcription Center If you're considering recruiting volunteers for your transcription project, you don't want to miss some of … [Read more...] about Engaging with volunteers: Smithsonian Transcription Center
Start Reading Old Handwriting: Some Recommended Books
So you have some handwritten manuscripts, but you're not sure where to get started because they are difficult to read? Look no further! Some of the reasons that handwriting may prove a stumbling block to those working on transcription projects include: Archaic hands Unknown abbreviations Documents that are multilingual or in an unknown language Lack of familiarity … [Read more...] about Start Reading Old Handwriting: Some Recommended Books
Finding Transcribers for the Yaquina Lighthouse Project
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
Tanselle's Footnote 5
Years after starting FromThePage, we realized it is fundamentally a documentary editing platform. As we've gone about educating ourselves on documentary editing -- and improving FromThePage with what we learned -- we've found some resources we think might be interesting to anyone running a transcription project, whatever their discipline. The Editing of Historical … [Read more...] about Tanselle's Footnote 5
M.B. Parkes’s English Cursive Book Hands: Digital Images of Plates
Years after starting FromThePage, we realized it is fundamentally a documentary editing platform. As we've gone about educating ourselves on documentary editing -- and improving FromThePage with what we learned -- we've found some resources we think might be interesting to anyone running a transcription project, whatever their discipline. M.B. Parkes' classic English Cursive … [Read more...] about M.B. Parkes’s English Cursive Book Hands: Digital Images of Plates