People often worry about the quality of crowdsourced transcriptions – and we get it. Strangers, from the internet, working on your material? Yikes! But here’s the deal: many of them won’t be strangers long. The intrinsic motivation our volunteers have and their understanding of how important your material is to historians and genealogists, makes them take a lot of care – more, … [Read more...] about Make Reviewing Easier
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An Interview with Dr. Christina Lee of Princeton University
Dr. Christina H. Lee of Princeton University kindly took the time to answer questions and discuss their projects and experience using the platform with Sara Brumfield of FromThePage. Dr. Christina H. Lee is the Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. First, tell us about your documents. These are the … [Read more...] about An Interview with Dr. Christina Lee of Princeton University
Could Chain of Density Prompts be Used for Finding Aids?
I tend to call GPT-generated text “lardy” – too many words without a lot of meaning. GPT is in desperate need of a copy editor. For writing summarizations that might be used in a finding aid, this is NOT what you want. You want to capture the essence of a document or file in as concise a way as possible. Chain of Density Summarization, outlined in this paper, seems to be a way … [Read more...] about Could Chain of Density Prompts be Used for Finding Aids?
How Good Is Good Enough? Reviewing Transcriptions.
How good is good enough for your transcription project? We all have a tendency to want things to be “perfect”. Some of us even have a legal obligation for things to be “good”. But humans aren’t perfect. We’ve talked about the errors medieval scribes made transcribing – and they were professionals! Humans today also make mistakes. So, how much effort do you put into finding and … [Read more...] about How Good Is Good Enough? Reviewing Transcriptions.
Using GPT in an Archival Context: Matt Miller’s Susan B. Anthony Papers
Have you seen Matt Miller’s experiments using the GPT APIs on the Library of Congress’ Susan B. Anthony Papers? If you want to understand the possibilities of AI for archives, this is a great place to start. You can read Matt’s write-up and explore his interface to the collection. He’s using the GPT APIs to achieve a lot: … [Read more...] about Using GPT in an Archival Context: Matt Miller’s Susan B. Anthony Papers