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Feature: TEI-XML Export

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How do you get the data out? This is a question I hear pretty often, particularly from professional archivists.  If an institution and its users have put the effort into creating digital editions on FromThePage, how can they pull the transcripts out of FromThePage to back it up, repurpose it, or import it into other systems? This spring, I created an XHTML exporter that … [Read more...] about Feature: TEI-XML Export

Feature: Full Text Search/Article Link integration

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In the last couple of weeks, I've implemented most of the features in the editorial toolkit. Scribes can identify unannotated pages from the table of contents, readers can peruse all pages in a collection linked to a subject, and users can perform a full text search. I'd like to describe the full text search in some detail, since there are some really interesting things you … [Read more...] about Feature: Full Text Search/Article Link integration

Progress Report: Page Thumbnails and Sensitive Tags

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As anyone reading this blog through the Blogspot website knows, visual design is not one of my strengths. One of the challenges that users have with FromThePage is navigation. It's not apparent from the single-page screen that clicking on a work title will show you a list of pages. It's even less obvious from the multi-page work reading screen that the page images are … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Page Thumbnails and Sensitive Tags

Feature: Editorial Toolkit

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I'm pleased to report that my cousin Linda Tucker has finished transcribing the 1919 diary. I've been trying my best to keep up with her speed, but she's able to transcribe two pages in the amount of time it takes me to edit and annotate a single, simple page. If the editing work requires more extensive research, or (worse) reveals the need to re-do several previous pages, … [Read more...] about Feature: Editorial Toolkit