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Interview: Sonya Coleman on Transcribing for the Library of Virginia and Coding New Features for FromThePage

May 24, 2019 By Susan Floyd

"Ben and Sara worked with our team at the Library to upload all the images, make the form properly, and even incorporate new features we needed."

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: Marriage Certificates at the Maryland State Archives

April 24, 2019 By Susan Floyd

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 … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Marriage Certificates at the Maryland State Archives

How to Learn to Read Shorthand

February 5, 2019 By Susan Floyd

Example of Gregg 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

October 12, 2018 By Susan Floyd

"FromThePage offers so many opportunities for categorizing and linking our documents together, which is something our project looks forward to utilizing as well. With over 1,500 separate works hosted on the site, we are slowly moving toward a fully transcribed project!

" -Tanner Potts

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

October 5, 2018 By Susan Floyd

"We're so glad we found FromThePage! We'd been looking for a program to facilitate this project for some time, and FromThePage ticked all the boxes for us." -Kelly Riddle

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

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