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
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Prosopography Hackathon Project: Using Machine Learning to extract entities from Ancient Greek (and other languages)
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)
Protected: How to Learn to Read Shorthand
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OCR Correction vs Transcription
We found this recent comment by a volunteer on a FromThePage project to be fascinating: "I am sad to report I have found numerous errors, too many to even begin to fix, within these pages... It will be much easier to completely transcribe from the beginning correctly, than try and fix ALL the typos. Would you like me to do this for the Library? " OCR correction is arguably … [Read more...] about OCR Correction vs Transcription
DH Project Ideas from the Texas AI Summit
Friday I attended the Texas AI Summit, a one day AI-focused conference conveniently in my hometown. The fun of a conference like this is looking for techniques and tools that could be applied to Digital Humanities projects; the pain is sitting through so many eye bleeding talks with mathematical formulas for classifying data. Here are the two best ideas. You're welcome. 1) Use … [Read more...] about DH Project Ideas from the Texas AI Summit