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
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
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
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. … [Read more...] about Improving OCR using FromThePage
Prosopography Hackathon Project: Using Machine Learning to extract entities from Ancient Greek (and other languages)
I've just returned from a Prosopography Hackathon at the University of Vienna, a three day long digital humanities event to "hack" databases of people and biography. After a short brainstorming session, I volunteered for "information extraction" (getting information out of texts), but my three-person team had dissolved by the afternoon of the first day. I feared I'd have to … [Read more...] about Prosopography Hackathon Project: Using Machine Learning to extract entities from Ancient Greek (and other languages)