Via Twitter and the TEI-L mailing list, I see that Jens Brokfeld, a graduate student in Potsdam, is conducting a survey of projects using transcription tools for his thesis, “Creating Digital Editions with Crowdsourced Manuscript Transcription: A Tool Evaluation”. I encourage readers of this blog to take the survey and help advance the field. In case that your … [Read more...] about Survey on Crowdsourced Transcription Tools
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Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription
Whenever I talk about crowd-sourced transcription--actually whenever I talk about crowdsourced anything--the first question people ask is about accuracy. Nobody trusts the public add to an institution's data/meta-data, nor especially to correct it. However, quality control over data entry is a well-explored problem, and while I'm not familiar with the literature from industry … [Read more...] about Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription
We Get Press!
Crowdsourced transcription projects--and FromThePage in particular--have gotten some really nice press in the last few weeks. Konrad Lawson posted an excellent review of Scripto and FromThePage on the ProfHacker blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education: Crowdsourcing Transcription: FromThePage and Scripto. Francine Diep wrote a great article on the phenomenon at Innovation … [Read more...] about We Get Press!
Developments in Wikisource/ProofreadPage for Transcription
Last year I reviewed Wikisource as a platform for manuscript transcription projects, concluding that the ProofreadPage plug-in was quite versatile, but that unfortunately the en.wikisource.org policy prohibiting any text not already published on paper ruled out its use for manuscripts. I'm pleased to report that this policy has been softened. About a month ago, NARA started … [Read more...] about Developments in Wikisource/ProofreadPage for Transcription
Programmers: Wikisource Needs You!
Wikisource is powered by a MediaWiki extension which allows page images to be displayed beside the wiki editing form. This extension also handles editorial workflow by allowing pages, chapters, and books to be marked as unedited, partially edited, in need of review, or finished. It's a fine system, and while the policy of the English language Wikisource community prevents it … [Read more...] about Programmers: Wikisource Needs You!