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Interview: Dr. Laura Morreale on Teaching and Collaborative Research in FromThePage

March 16, 2020 By Sara Brumfield

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: 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

Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records

August 4, 2018 By Ben Brumfield

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

Project Profile: University of Virginia School of Law Special Collections

June 15, 2018 By Susan Floyd

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Dr. James Ambuske is Horatio and Florence Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the Arthur J. Morris Law Library, University of Virginia School of Law.  We interviewed him to learn more about how a the law school library is using FromThePage with their special collections. First, tell us about your documents. The UVA Law Library is fortunate to hold a … [Read more...] about Project Profile: University of Virginia School of Law Special Collections

Interview: Sue Perdue on Crowd-Sourcing with FromThePage

April 15, 2018 By Susan Floyd

Portrait of Margaret Bayard Smith, by Charles Bird King. Ca 1829. Public Domain.

Sue Perdue is is a past president of the Association of Documentary Editing, the co-editor of A Guide to Documentary Editing, and has worked on the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the Papers of John Marshall, and the Papers of James Madison. First, tell us about your documents. The Margaret Bayard Smith Transcription Project is part of a larger documentary editing project … [Read more...] about Interview: Sue Perdue on Crowd-Sourcing with FromThePage

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