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Collaborative transcription, the hard way

April 14, 2008 by Ben Brumfield

Archivalia has kept us informed of lots of manuscript projects going online in Europe last week, offering commentary along the way. Perhaps my favorite exchange was about the Chronicle of Sweder von Schele on the Internet:

Mit dem Projekt wird zunächst bezweckt, die Transkription zu ergänzen und zu verbessern. Hierzu können neue Abschriften per Mail an die am Projekt beteiligten Institutionen geschickt werden. Nach redaktioneller Prüfung werden die Seiten ausgetauscht.

Meine Güte, wie vorsintflutlich. Hat man noch nie etwas von einem Wiki gehört?

That's right -- the online community may send in corrections and additions to the transcription by mail.

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