Sonya Coleman is Digital Engagement + Social Media Coordinator at the Library of Virginia. First, tell us about your documents. The Library of Virginia houses over 124 million archival items, including state and local records, personal papers, microfilm, maps, photographs, and more. Many of these documents contain structured data, such as the World War I Questionnaires. These … [Read more...] about Interview: Sonya Coleman on Transcribing for the Library of Virginia and Coding New Features for FromThePage
Project Profile: Crowd-Sourcing Transcription of Marriage Certificates at the Maryland State Archives
Liz Coelho is the Executive Associate for Projects at the Maryland State Archives. She kindly agreed to be interviewed by Sara Brumfield about the Archives’ use of FromThePage. Please tell us about your project The Maryland State Archives currently has one fielded-form project posted on FromThePage, a collection of marriage certificates from 1978. No index exists for … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Crowd-Sourcing Transcription of Marriage Certificates at the Maryland State Archives
How to Learn to Read Shorthand
So you have documents you want to read or transcribe--but they contain shorthand! What to do? As coursework in shorthand has dropped off the curricula of high schools and secretarial schools have withered or transformed into business programs with an emphasis on word processing skills, knowledge of shorthand is not nearly as common as it once was. With fewer people skilled in … [Read more...] about How to Learn to Read Shorthand
Project Profile: Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race and Reconciliation
Tanner Potts is Research Associate for the Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race and Reconciliation at the University of the South. First, tell us about your documents. Our documents on FromThePage focus on the founding period of the University of the South, 1856-1868. During this time, the ten southern-most dioceses of the Episcopal church united to found a university … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race and Reconciliation
Project Profile: LA County’s Letters of the Office of Indian Affairs
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, D.C., … [Read more...] about Project Profile: LA County’s Letters of the Office of Indian Affairs