In addition to FromThePage, Brumfield Labs also provides software development to scholars, historical societies, and heritage organizations. The following is a description of a project we did for Gary Simons and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals to produce an interactive version of the Curran Index. Gary Simons, the current editor of the Curran Index, had … [Read more...] about DH Projects -- The Curran Index
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Collaborative effort drives UVa Law Library transcription project
A lovely article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about James Ambuske, one of our collaborators at UVa, and how they are using FromThePage: “Here in the Law Library, we’re looking for ways to disseminate our collections and make them more widely known,” Ambuske said. “Particularly after the events of early August here in Charlottesville, we’re trying to … [Read more...] about Collaborative effort drives UVa Law Library transcription project
Providing Contextual Help to Transcribers in FromThePage: UCD's Irish Dialect Archive Manuscript Collection
Many transcription project owners need the ability to explain how to transcribe the special nuances of their material. FromThePage project owners have the ability to configure transcription help within FromThePage; that help can be extensive. An example of an extensive transcription help screen is in University College Dublin’s Irish Dialect Archive … [Read more...] about Providing Contextual Help to Transcribers in FromThePage: UCD's Irish Dialect Archive Manuscript Collection
What We Do
Sara spoke last night at the inaugural Rice Computer Science in Austin Meetup about our work. Here is a rough transcription of her talk. I know Carlyn billed me as an entrepreneur, and I am, but I thought for this crowd it would be more fun to talk about the work, rather than the business. If you want to talk business, I'm happy to do that afterwards. First, a … [Read more...] about What We Do
Tanselle's Footnote 5
Years after starting FromThePage, we realized it is fundamentally a documentary editing platform. As we've gone about educating ourselves on documentary editing -- and improving FromThePage with what we learned -- we've found some resources we think might be interesting to anyone running a transcription project, whatever their discipline. The Editing of Historical … [Read more...] about Tanselle's Footnote 5