We found this recent comment by a volunteer on a FromThePage project to be fascinating: "I am sad to report I have found numerous errors, too many to even begin to fix, within these pages... It will be much easier to completely transcribe from the beginning correctly, than try and fix ALL the typos. Would you like me to do this for the Library? " OCR correction is arguably … [Read more...] about OCR Correction vs Transcription
DH Project Ideas from the Texas AI Summit
Friday I attended the Texas AI Summit, a one day AI-focused conference conveniently in my hometown. The fun of a conference like this is looking for techniques and tools that could be applied to Digital Humanities projects; the pain is sitting through so many eye bleeding talks with mathematical formulas for classifying data. Here are the two best ideas. You're welcome. 1) Use … [Read more...] about DH Project Ideas from the Texas AI Summit
DH Projects -- Slavery Images
Brumfield Labs and Henry Lovejoy are pleased to announce the launch of the new version of SlaveryImages.org. The site contains over 1200 images documenting the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World. The images it contains are used by teachers, researchers, students, … [Read more...] about DH Projects -- Slavery Images
10 Ways to Host a Great Transcribathon
What's a transcribathon? In the words of Paul Dingman of the Folger Shakespeare Library, on the very first transcribathon in 2014: “Transcribathon, an event running from noon to midnight in which we transcribe and encode manuscripts..." Your transcribathon doesn't have be a 12 hour long marathon, but we've gathered a list of ideas from other transcribathons that … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Host a Great Transcribathon
Writing a Crowdsourcing Project Newsletter
Why should you write a newsletter for your crowdsourcing project? The biggest reason to send a newsletter for your crowdsourcing project is to keep your volunteers motivated and coming back. We live in a busy world, and a gentle reminder that your project exists and is fun to work on can reengage volunteers. There's lots of ways to write a project newsletter, but I've noticed … [Read more...] about Writing a Crowdsourcing Project Newsletter