Sue Perdue is is a past president of the Association of Documentary Editing, the co-editor of A Guide to Documentary Editing, and has worked on the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the Papers of John Marshall, and the Papers of James Madison. First, tell us about your documents. The Margaret Bayard Smith Transcription Project is part of a larger documentary editing project that I … [Read more...] about Interview: Sue Perdue on Crowd-Sourcing with FromThePage
Project Profile: Indianapolis Public Library
Victoria Duncan is Digital Projects Coordinator at the Indianapolis Public Library. She kindly agreed to be interviewed by Sara Brumfield about the library's use of FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents. Currently we have 6 collections up on FromThePage: Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Indianapolis Public Schools, Indianapolis Public Library, May … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Indianapolis Public Library
Interview with Rebecca Nesvet on using FromThePage in the Digital Humanities classroom
Rebecca Nesvet is Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She kindly agreed to be interviewed by Lee Skallerup Besette on her use of FromThePage in her classroom. Lee Skallerup Besette is an Instructional Technology Specialist at the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington, specializing in … [Read more...] about Interview with Rebecca Nesvet on using FromThePage in the Digital Humanities classroom
Hashtags for Community Building
As we touched on in our earlier post about the Smithsonian Transcription Center and their successful team of volunteer transcribers, the hashtag #volunpeers was first used by the Center's project coordinator Dr. Meghan Ferriter. In the four years since Ferriter coined the term, in April 2014, it has taken off as a popular hashtag across a wide variety of host repositories, … [Read more...] about Hashtags for Community Building
Collaborative effort drives UVa Law Library transcription project
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