From March 10-12, I got to participate in the iDigBio Original Sources Digitization Workshop, a gathering of natural history collections managers, archivists, and technologists. Although the focus of digitization within natural history has been on specimens or specimen labels, this workshop sought to address the challenges and opportunities involved in digitizing ledgers, field … [Read more...] about Wikilinks in FromThePage
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"The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University
I spent part of this week at Duke University with the Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing -- Josh Sosin, Hugh Cayless, and Ryan Baumann. We discussed ideas for mobile epigraphy applications, argued about text encoding, and did some hacking. We loaded an instance of FromThePage onto the DC3's development machine, seeded it with the 1859 journal of Viscontess Emily Anne … [Read more...] about "The Landscape of Crowdsourcing and Transcription" at Duke University
Webwise Reprise on Crowdsourcing
Back in June, the folks at IMLS and Heritage Preservation ran a webinar exploring the issues and tools discussed at the IMLS Webwise Crowdsourcing panel "Sharing Public History Work: Crowdsourcing Data and Sources." After a introduction by Kevin Cherry and Kristen Laise, Sharon Leon, who chaired the live panel, presented a wonderful overview of crowdsourcing cultural … [Read more...] about Webwise Reprise on Crowdsourcing