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
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Matt Unger on Article Links
Matt Unger has been kind enough to send his ideas on article links within transcription software. I've posted my plans here before, but Matt's ideas are borne of his experience after six months of work on Papa's Diary. Some of his ideas are already included by my link feature, others may inform FromThePage, but I think his specification is worth posting in its entirety. If … [Read more...] about Matt Unger on Article Links
Feature: Sensitive Tags
Sensitive tags allow passsages within a transcription to be removed from public view — visible to scribes and work owners, but suppressed in printouts or display to viewers. Why on earth is this desirable?At some level, collaborative software is about persuasion. If the mid-term goal of this project is to get the people with old letters and diaries stashed in their filing … [Read more...] about Feature: Sensitive Tags
Feature: User Roles
I've moved into what is probably the least glamorous phase of development: security, permissions, and user management.There are four (or five) different roles in FromThePage, with some areas of ambiguity regarding what those users are allowed to do.Admins are the rulers of a software installation. There are only a few of them per site, and in a hosted environment, they hold … [Read more...] about Feature: User Roles
Gavin Robinson's Project Wenham
On his indispensable Investigations of a Dog, Gavin Robinson describes digitizing his grandfather's letters from a German POW camp in WWI:The text will be transcribed and marked up with TEI compliant XML, and published on the web, along with background information written by me. There will be an index of people, and possibly places. Another optional extra will be selections of … [Read more...] about Gavin Robinson's Project Wenham