Sue Perdue is is a past president of the Association of Documentary Editing, the co-editor of A Guide to Documentary Editing, and has worked on the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the Papers of John Marshall, and the Papers of James Madison. First, tell us about your documents. The Margaret Bayard Smith Transcription Project is part of a larger documentary editing project … [Read more...] about Interview: Sue Perdue on Crowd-Sourcing with FromThePage
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Interview with Rebecca Nesvet on using FromThePage in the Digital Humanities classroom
Rebecca Nesvet is Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She kindly agreed to be interviewed by Lee Skallerup Besette on her use of FromThePage in her classroom. Lee Skallerup Besette is an Instructional Technology Specialist at the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington, specializing in the … [Read more...] about Interview with Rebecca Nesvet on using FromThePage in the Digital Humanities classroom
Text Beyond Annotations at IIIF-Vatican
On June 8, 2017, Patrick Cuba, John Howard, Peter Robinson, Jeffrey Witt and I organized a discussion session for the IIIF conference hosted by the Vatican Library. We wanted to explore our efforts to utilize IIIF in our existing, manuscript-based textual projects, from crowdsourced transcription to documentary editing to textual scholarship. The urgency of this conversation … [Read more...] about Text Beyond Annotations at IIIF-Vatican
Feature: TEI-XML Export
How do you get the data out?This is a question I hear pretty often, particularly from professional archivists. If an institution and its users have put the effort into creating digital editions on FromThePage, how can they pull the transcripts out of FromThePage to back it up, repurpose it, or import it into other systems?This spring, I created an XHTML exporter that will … [Read more...] about Feature: TEI-XML Export
The Collaborative Future of Amateur Editions
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