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Sara Brumfield

On Competitive Transcription

October 9, 2020 By Sara Brumfield

I don’t think I have been on a team since high school. Who knew that competitive transcription would inspire a sense of exhilaration and shared purpose that I had not experienced in decades? I forgot to eat. I slept poorly. I neglected my job. I talked to old friends unexpectedly and made news ones.  It was wonderful. What a rare thing to create such a welcoming space for … [Read more...] about On Competitive Transcription

Interview: Dr. Laura Morreale on Teaching and Collaborative Research in FromThePage

March 16, 2020 By Sara Brumfield

An interview with Laura Morreale, Independent Scholar of Medieval Francophonie and Italian Historiographies. Laura spearheaded support for translation in FromThePage, and we've big fans of her innovative work combining collaboration, transcription, digital humanities, and medieval manuscripts. Her thoughts on teaching using FromThePage are particularly timely. First, … [Read more...] about Interview: Dr. Laura Morreale on Teaching and Collaborative Research in FromThePage

Project Profile: Doten Diaries

November 4, 2019 By Sara Brumfield

An interview with Donnie Curtis, from University Nevada Reno, on her Doten Diaries project. Find the project on FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents.Diary entries were written by Alfred Doten every day of his life from the day he left home in Plymouth Massachusetts in 1849 at age 19 to seek gold in California until the day he died in 1903 in Carson … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Doten Diaries

Project Profile: Papers of Julian Bond & Bond Transcribathon

September 25, 2019 By Sara Brumfield

An interview with James Perla, the Managing Director of the Citizen Justice Initiative at the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, about their ongoing Julian Bond Papers Project and their recent Bond Transcribathon. What are your goals for the project? The Julian Bond Papers project seeks to create a documentary … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Papers of Julian Bond & Bond Transcribathon

Improving OCR using FromThePage

February 27, 2019 By Sara Brumfield

This is a response to the recently published "A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition" by David A. Smith and Ryan Cordell, with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  The report analyzes current challenges faced by humanities researchers using OCR text and outlines important avenues for research to improve OCR quality.  In many … [Read more...] about Improving OCR using FromThePage

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