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
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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
Building a Structured Transcription Tool with FreeUKGen
I'm currently working with FreeUKGen--the charity behind the genealogy database FreeBMD--to build a general-purpose, open-source tool for crowdsourced transcription of structured manuscript data into a searchable database. We're basing our system on the Scribe tool developed for the Citizen Science Alliance for What's the Score at the Bodleian, which originated out of their … [Read more...] about Building a Structured Transcription Tool with FreeUKGen
Bending Regular Expressions to Express Uncertainty
This post expands upon an email I sent to James Edward Gray II, my mentor in regular expressions, whom I thank for his generosity. For the last few months--ever since I started conducting regular expression workshops at THATCamps--I've been thinking about using regular expressions to represent uncertainty. The great power of the regex is its ability to define context, … [Read more...] about Bending Regular Expressions to Express Uncertainty