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
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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
M.B. Parkes’s English Cursive Book Hands: Digital Images of Plates
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. M.B. Parkes' classic English Cursive … [Read more...] about M.B. Parkes’s English Cursive Book Hands: Digital Images of Plates
"The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University
In 2013, Ben Brumfield gave an introductory talk on crowdsourced manuscript transcription at the Perkins Library: "The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University. Watch the recording of the presentation below: Read Ben's presentation below: I'd like to talk about what transcription is. We're all dealing with problems of, most of us … [Read more...] about "The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University