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NEH to fund better internationalization and integration in FromThePage

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We are thrilled to announce the award of a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Advanced Grant to our collaborators at University of Texas Libraries and LLILAS Benson Center. This work will fund important enhancements to FromThePage. Multilingual Support While FromThePage supports transcribing text in any Unicode-supported script, the application interface … [Read more...] about NEH to fund better internationalization and integration in FromThePage

The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription

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Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as "the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on." This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked like in 2010 It's interesting to look back at 2010 to see what's happened to the projects I thought were major developments: FamilySearch … [Read more...] about The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription

Transcribathons

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Let's talk transcribathons Hosting a transcribathon is a great way to build excitement around a project, deepen engagement, and have fun while getting work done! In August, the University of Virginia held the second annual Julian Bond transcribathon which brought the University and the local community together to help increase access to the papers of the civil rights … [Read more...] about Transcribathons

Prosopography Hackathon Project: Using Machine Learning to extract entities from Ancient Greek (and other languages)

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I've just returned from a Prosopography Hackathon at the University of Vienna, a three day long digital humanities event to "hack" databases of people and biography. After a short brainstorming session, I volunteered for "information extraction" (getting information out of texts), but my three-person team had dissolved by the afternoon of the first day. I feared I'd have to … [Read more...] about Prosopography Hackathon Project: Using Machine Learning to extract entities from Ancient Greek (and other languages)