Archivalia has kept us informed of lots of manuscript projects going online in Europe last week, offering commentary along the way. Perhaps my favorite exchange was about the Chronicle of Sweder von Schele on the Internet: Mit dem Projekt wird zunächst bezweckt, die Transkription zu ergänzen und zu verbessern. Hierzu können neue Abschriften per Mail an die am Projekt … [Read more...] about Collaborative transcription, the hard way
similar projects
Review: IATH Manuscript Transcription Database
This is the second of two reviews of similar transcription projects I wrote in correspondence with Brian Cafferelli, an undergraduate working on the WPI Manuscript Transcription Assistant. In this correspondence, I reviewed systems by their support for collaboration, automation, and analysis. The IATH Manuscript Transcription Database was a system for producing transcriptions … [Read more...] about Review: IATH Manuscript Transcription Database
Chris Wehner's SoldierStudies.org
This is the first of two reviews of similar transcription projects I wrote in correspondence with Brian Cafferelli, an undergraduate working on the WPI Manuscript Transcription Assistant. In this correspondence, I reviewed systems by their support for collaboration, automation, and analysis. SoldierStudies.org is a non-academic/non-commercial effort like my own. It's a … [Read more...] about Chris Wehner's SoldierStudies.org
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
Matt Unger's Papa's Diary Project
Of all the online transcriptions I've seen so far, Papa's Diary Project does the most with the least. Matt Unger is transcribing and annotating his grandfather's 1924 diary, then posting one entry per day. So far as I'm able to tell, he's not using any technology more complicated than a scanner, some basic image processing software, and Blogger. Matt's annotations are really … [Read more...] about Matt Unger's Papa's Diary Project