This is the transcript of my talk at Social Digital Scholarly Editing at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon on July 11 2013. I'm Ben Brumfield. I'm not a scholarly editor, I'm an amateur editor and professional software developer. Most of the talks that I give talk about crowdsourcing, and crowdsourcing manuscript transcription, and how to get people … [Read more...] about The Collaborative Future of Amateur Editions
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Choosing Crowdsourced Transcription Platforms at SSA 2013
This is a transcript of my talk at the Society of Southwestern Archivists 2013 Annual Meeting. [Update 2013-05-28: The audio for the talk may be downloaded as an MP3.] This talk is about choosing a crowdsourced transcription platform, but "choosing" means a couple of things. "Choosing" means which, and "choosing" can mean whether-- should you do this at all?. I'd like to … [Read more...] about Choosing Crowdsourced Transcription Platforms at SSA 2013
Itinera Nova in the World(s) of Crowdsourcing and TEI
On April 25, 2013, I presented this talk at the International Colloquium Itinera Nova in Leuven, Belgium. It was a fantastic experience, which I plan to post (and speak) more about, but I wanted to get my slides and transcript online as soon as possible. Abstract: Crowdsourcing for cultural heritage material has become increasingly popular over the last decade, but manuscript … [Read more...] about Itinera Nova in the World(s) of Crowdsourcing and TEI
Improving OCR Inputs from OCR Outputs?
This is a transcript of my talk at the iDigBio Augmenting OCR Hackathon, presenting preliminary results of my efforts before the event. For my preliminary work, I tried to improve the inputs to our OCR process through looking at the outputs of a naive OCR. One of the first things that we can do to improve the quality of our inputs to OCR is to not feed them handwriting. To … [Read more...] about Improving OCR Inputs from OCR Outputs?
What does it mean to "support TEI" for manuscript transcription?
This is a transcript of my talk at the 2012 TEI meeting at Texas A&M University, "What does it mean to 'support TEI' for manuscript transcription: a tool-maker's perspective." You can download an MP3 recording of the talk here. Let's get started with a couple of definitions. All the tools and the sites that I'm reviewing are cloud based, which means that I'm ruling … [Read more...] about What does it mean to "support TEI" for manuscript transcription?