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March 14, 2014 By Ben Brumfield

From March 10-12, I got to participate in the iDigBio Original Sources Digitization Workshop, a gathering of natural history collections managers, archivists, and technologists. Although the focus of digitization within natural history has been on specimens or specimen labels, this workshop sought to address the challenges and opportunities involved in digitizing ledgers, field … [Read more...] about Wikilinks in FromThePage

Feature: Editorial Toolkit

March 16, 2009 By Ben Brumfield

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

GoogleFight Resolves Unclear Handwriting

February 10, 2009 By Ben Brumfield

I've spent the last couple of weeks as a FromThePage user working seriously on annotation. This mainly involves identifying the people and events mentioned in Julia Brumfield's 1918 diary and writing short articles to appear as hyperlinked pages within the website, or be printed as footnotes following the first mention of the subject. Although my primary resource is a … [Read more...] about GoogleFight Resolves Unclear Handwriting

Feature: Data Maintenance Tools

April 26, 2008 By Ben Brumfield

With only two collections of documents, fewer than a hundred transcriptions, and only a half-dozen users who could be charitably described as "active", FromThePage is starting to strain under the weight of its data.All of this has to do with subjects. These are the indexable words that provide navigation, analysis, and context to readers. They're working out pretty well, but … [Read more...] about Feature: Data Maintenance Tools

Progress Report: Subject Categories

September 20, 2007 By Ben Brumfield

It's been several days since I updated this blog, but that doesn't mean I've been sitting idle. I finished a basic implementation of subject categories a couple of weeks ago. I decided to go with hierarchical categories, as is pretty typical for web content. Furthermore, the N:N categorization scheme I described back in April turned out to be surprisingly simple to … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Subject Categories

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