How do you handle racist language in your archives? This is, unfortunately, a perennial issue. The Archives for Black Lives group in 2019 published Anti-Racist Description Resources. While you should read the whole thing (especially if you have materials pertaining to slavery), I wanted to pull out some practical bits to share with you: Consider your audience and the … [Read more...] about Advice from Archives for Black Lives
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ChatGPT for Libraries and Archives
Last May 19, Sara Brumfield hosted a webinar to discuss ChatGPT for libraries and archives. The presentation, linked below in a video and embedded as slides, presents a breakdown of what ChatGPT is and how it affects libraries and archives. This was FromThePage's most-attended webinar, and it was exciting to have so many people join. You can sign up for future … [Read more...] about ChatGPT for Libraries and Archives
Measuring Success in Crowdsourcing Projects
On July 28, Sara and I hosted the first FromThePage User Group Meeting in Washington DC. It was a fun event--to me it felt more like a party than a meeting, since I got to spend most of my time introducing my colleagues to each other. (That said, cocktails were replaced with breakfast tacos, which we thought a little more appropriate for 8:30 AM.) I spent some days … [Read more...] about Measuring Success in Crowdsourcing Projects
ChatGPT, r/AskHistorians, & Spam
Vice recently published an article about ChatGPT generated spam on the popular AskHistorians subreddit. Here’s an excerpt: "The two-million-strong AskHistorians forum allows non-expert Redditors to submit questions about history topics, and receive in-depth answers from historians. Recent popular posts have probed the hive mind on whether the stress of being “on time” … [Read more...] about ChatGPT, r/AskHistorians, & Spam
How To Wrap Up A Transcription Project
Let’s talk about what happens after crowdsourcing projects are done. There are two things to think about here: what happens to the volunteer community, and what happens to the data? In this newsletter we’re going to dive deep into the first. Just like we have a responsibility not to waste volunteers’ labor, successful projects recognize that volunteers make social … [Read more...] about How To Wrap Up A Transcription Project