Last February 2023, Ben and Sara Brumfield hosted a webinar to discuss everything you can do with crowdsourcing. The presentation, linked below in a video and embedded as slides, presents a list of things you can do with crowdsourcing, featuring different projects on FromThePage. You can sign up for future webinars here. Everything You Can […]
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What We've Learned About HTR
We’ve spent the last 6 months working with our AI Assist Development Partners using their large variety of archival documents to gather feedback on both our AI Assist and AI Draft features, as well as what kinds of documents are good candidates for handwritten text recognition using Transkribus’ super models. Today, we’re sharing some of […]
Subject Spotter: Our NEH Grant for LLM Aided Entity Recognition and Identification
We’re excited to announce that with our collaborators from the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi (CWRGM) Project, Lindsey R. Peterson of the University of South Dakota and Elizabeth La Beaud from the Mississippi Digital Library, we’ve received a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for “Subject Spotter: Automation & Subject […]
Animatronic GPTs at Museums?
Ben and I were recently in San Jose, California for a wedding. We stopped by the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum for an afternoon visit, and were surprised to find an astonishing use of ChatGPT: A responsive, animatronic Thoth! You step up to a microphone, and ask Thoth a question, and he lectures – in this he […]
Envisioning Ancestors with AI
This month we are excited to share a fascinating project that highlights the power of crowdsourced transcriptions combined with AI. The Library of Virginia recently hosted a workshop titled "Envisioning Ancestors with AI," which utilized transcriptions of historic records from the Virginia Untold project (transcribed on FromThePage) to create imaginative depictions of people from the […]
Signature Talks Program
The Signature Talks program offers free training for your group through our most popular webinars, “Your First Crowdsourcing Project”, "10 Ways AI Will Change Archives and Libraries", and "Using HTR in People-Centered Transcription”, tailored to specific groups. This program is designed for groups of at least five people, providing a customized experience with a dedicated […]