Kelly Riddle is the Digital Projects Coordinator at LA County Library. First, tell us about your documents. The letters in this collection were written by many different individuals in California to the federal Office of Indian Affairs between 1849 and 1880. Federal and state government officials and private citizens wrote to the Office, headquartered in Washington, … [Read more...] about Project Profile: LA County's Letters of the Office of Indian Affairs
Project Profile: Indiana Archives and Records Administration's World War I Service Record Cards
Claire Horton is Deputy State Archivist at Indiana Archives and Records Administration. First, tell us about your documents. Our first project is to create an index to Indiana’s World War I Service Record cards. These cards detail a soldier’s service in the military, and list biographical details like residence, date of birth, and place of birth. We chose this project to … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Indiana Archives and Records Administration's World War I Service Record Cards
Project Profile: University of Virginia School of Law Special Collections
Dr. James Ambuske is Horatio and Florence Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the Arthur J. Morris Law Library, University of Virginia School of Law. We interviewed him to learn more about how a the law school library is using FromThePage with their special collections. First, tell us about your documents. The UVA Law Library is fortunate to hold a … [Read more...] about Project Profile: University of Virginia School of Law Special Collections
2018 Paleography Courses
Last spring, we shared a list of online and face-to-face paleography courses. Now we're back with some shiny new possibilities for 2018! Here's what we've found. Some are MOOCS (massive open online courses) offered through universities; others are web-based self-paced tutorials. If none of these work for you, you should also check out the classic instructional guides … [Read more...] about 2018 Paleography Courses
Interview: Sue Perdue on Crowd-Sourcing with FromThePage
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