This is the first of a short series of posts highlighting the Masters Thesis by Florence Bürgy, Pratiques participatives et patrimoine numérisé : le cas des manuscrits. Réflexion en vue d’un projet de transcription collaborative en Ville de Genève. Bürgy analyzed the crowdsourcing needs of several cultural heritage institutions in Geneva, Switzerland, interviewing experts, … [Read more...] about Florence Bürgy on Selecting Material and Designing Projects
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Tips for Hosting Your First Virtual Transcribathon
Virtual transcribathons are a great way to interact and engage with your volunteers and collaborators on a transcription project. These virtual events bring together your institution and the public to collaborate and support one another when transcribing material. However, if you’ve never held a virtual transcribathon before, you may not know how to start or where to … [Read more...] about Tips for Hosting Your First Virtual Transcribathon
10 Ways to Host a Great Transcribathon
What's a transcribathon? In the words of Paul Dingman of the Folger Shakespeare Library, on the very first transcribathon in 2014: “Transcribathon, an event running from noon to midnight in which we transcribe and encode manuscripts..." Your transcribathon doesn't have be a 12 hour long marathon, but we've gathered a list of ideas from other transcribathons that … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Host a Great Transcribathon
2018 Paleography Courses
Last spring, we shared a list of online and face-to-face paleography courses. Now we're back with some shiny new possibilities for 2018! Here's what we've found. Some are MOOCS (massive open online courses) offered through universities; others are web-based self-paced tutorials. If none of these work for you, you should also check out the classic instructional guides … [Read more...] about 2018 Paleography Courses
Crowdsourcing with CONTENTdm and FromThePage
We are pleased to announce that FromThePage now integrates with CONTENTdm, the digital collections management system created by OCLC. Through this integration, CONTENTdm users can launch crowdsourcing projects on FromThePage without the need for uploading image files, copying metadata, or cut-and-pasting user contributions into their digital collections. How it … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing with CONTENTdm and FromThePage