If you're interested in creating your own archival scanner, there are a few key components and considerations to keep in mind. Here's a basic overview of what you'll need and some steps to get started: Once you have gathered the necessary components, here's a general process to follow: Creating an effective archival scanner involves attention to detail and careful … [Read more...] about Guide to Digitizing Your Archives
How To Wrap Up A Transcription Project
Let’s talk about what happens after crowdsourcing projects are done. There are two things to think about here: what happens to the volunteer community, and what happens to the data? In this newsletter we’re going to dive deep into the first. Just like we have a responsibility not to waste volunteers’ labor, successful projects recognize that volunteers make social … [Read more...] about How To Wrap Up A Transcription Project
Using Crowdsourced Indexes in Preservica
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
Can a Scholarly Edition be Produced without a Human?
Recently on Twitter, FromThePage’s Ben Brumfield discussed the potential connection between scholarly editions and artificial intelligence/machine learning. What would happen if scholarly editions, a type of text historically human-dependent with commentary and annotations, were produced without human intervention? Can this be a positive use of technology, or is something … [Read more...] about Can a Scholarly Edition be Produced without a Human?