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
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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
Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records
On August 2, 2018, Meredith McDonough of the Alabama Department of Archives and History and Ben Brumfield of Brumfield Labs presented "Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records" at the CONTENTdm User Meeting. Our fellow panelists were Phil Sager and Kristen Newby of the Ohio History Connection, who presented on the crowdsourced transcription system they had built … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records
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 will help … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Host a Great Transcribathon