This is an interview with Dr. Mulaika Hijjas, who runs The Jawi Transcription Project on FromThePage. What is Jawi? Read on to find out! Dr Mulaika Hijjas is Lecturer (=Associate Professor) in South East Asian Studies at SOAS University of London. Originally from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, her research focuses on the Malay manuscript tradition, Islam and women … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Jawi Transcription Project
Project Profile: Howitt and Fison Papers
Jason Gibson is an anthropologist and curator with the Melbourne Museum in Australia. He has worked on numerous projects concerning Australian Aboriginal heritage materials and wrote his doctoral thesis on important audio, visual and manuscripts collections of Aboriginal songs and ceremonies. He is currently the project manager for a large project digitising the notebooks, … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Howitt and Fison Papers
DH Projects -- The Curran Index
In addition to FromThePage, Brumfield Labs also provides software development to scholars, historical societies, and heritage organizations. The following is a description of a project we did for Gary Simons and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals to produce an interactive version of the Curran Index. Gary Simons, the current editor of the Curran Index, had … [Read more...] about DH Projects -- The Curran Index
Providing Contextual Help to Transcribers in FromThePage: UCD's Irish Dialect Archive Manuscript Collection
Many transcription project owners need the ability to explain how to transcribe the special nuances of their material. FromThePage project owners have the ability to configure transcription help within FromThePage; that help can be extensive. An example of an extensive transcription help screen is in University College Dublin’s Irish Dialect Archive … [Read more...] about Providing Contextual Help to Transcribers in FromThePage: UCD's Irish Dialect Archive Manuscript Collection
What We Do
Sara spoke last night at the inaugural Rice Computer Science in Austin Meetup about our work. Here is a rough transcription of her talk. I know Carlyn billed me as an entrepreneur, and I am, but I thought for this crowd it would be more fun to talk about the work, rather than the business. If you want to talk business, I'm happy to do that afterwards. First, a … [Read more...] about What We Do