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An Interview With Julia Gearhart of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology

October 26, 2021 By Bethany Radcliff

Julia Gearhart, Director of the Visual Resources Collection of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, kindly spoke with Sara Brumfield about their experience using FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents. Our first project involved correcting OCR from typed excavation reports from the 1930s, of excavations of Antioch-on-the-Orontes. We now … [Read more...] about An Interview With Julia Gearhart of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology

Crowdsourcing: Free Labor or Free Puppy?

October 11, 2021 By Sara Brumfield

Sitting next to a senior leader of a European library at a IIIF event, he expressed concern that asking volunteers to work on transcribing was taking unfair advantage of free labor.  My internal reaction was, “you just want to keep all the good stuff for yourself!” -- but of course I didn’t say that.  I talked about meaningful volunteer work and how -- since our … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing: Free Labor or Free Puppy?

Using FromThePage to Create Descriptive Metadata at Ohio University Libraries

October 4, 2021 By Bethany Radcliff

Ohio University Libraries has an internal staff project that uses FromThePage to generate transcriptions and descriptive metadata for a collection of dance posters. This project is a hybrid project, in that transcriptions are generated along with text from the posters captured through standardized metadata fields. These fields allow the posters to be more accessible and … [Read more...] about Using FromThePage to Create Descriptive Metadata at Ohio University Libraries

The Transcription Quality Balancing Act

September 19, 2021 By Ben Brumfield

We're often asked about the quality of crowdsourced transcription projects by people skeptical that amateurs can edit historic documents.  Of course we're confident that amateurs can do high-quality work--especially in active collaboration with professionals--or else we wouldn't be doing this.  But many questions remain. What is "quality"? While writing the first … [Read more...] about The Transcription Quality Balancing Act

An Archivist's Tale Podcast - The Power of These Primary Sources to Bring Meaning

September 13, 2021 By Bethany Radcliff

Back in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Ben and Sara Brumfield sat with Karen Trivette and Geof Huth, husband and wife, and partners who run the podcast An Archivist's Tale. In this podcast, Ben and Sara discuss the origin story of FromThePage, their own backgrounds leading up to working in transcription software, motivations for the work they do, notable FromThePage … [Read more...] about An Archivist's Tale Podcast - The Power of These Primary Sources to Bring Meaning

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