Molly Kerr, the Founding Director of History Revealed, Inc., a non-profit, historical research organization, kindly spoke with Sara Brumfield about their experience using FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents. The Shopping Stories project focuses on store ledgers from the 18th century. Our first phase transcribed the John Glassford & Company store ledgers … [Read more...] about An Interview with Molly Kerr of History Revealed
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An Interview With Julia Gearhart of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology
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
An Archivist's Tale Podcast - The Power of These Primary Sources to Bring Meaning
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
An Interview with Dr. Camille Westmont of Sewanee: The University of the South
Dr. Camille Westmont, Visiting Professor of History at the University of the South, kindly spoke with Sara Brumfield about the Convict Leasing Project, and her experience using FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents. The documents we are working to transcribe are the prison records from the Lone Rock Stockade. The Lone Rock Stockade was a … [Read more...] about An Interview with Dr. Camille Westmont of Sewanee: The University of the South
An Interview with Allyssa Guzman & Albert Palacios of The University of Texas
Allyssa Guzman and Albert Palacios of the University of Texas at Austin kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Guzman is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, and Palacios is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator at the university for … [Read more...] about An Interview with Allyssa Guzman & Albert Palacios of The University of Texas