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French Departmental Archive on Wikisource

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While the transcription world buzzes with news of the release of the 1940 US census and the crowdsourced transcription projects that surround it, I'd like to draw your attention to a blog post published last week on La Tribune des Archives: "Edition collaborative de manuscrits sur Wikisource : 1er retour d'expérience".  The post covers the efforts of the archives of the … [Read more...] about French Departmental Archive on Wikisource

Crowdsourcing at IMLS WebWise 2012

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The video of the crowdsourcing panel at IMLS WebWise is online, so I thought I'd post my talk.  Like anyone who's created a transcript of their own unscripted remarks, I recommend watching the video. (My bit starts at 6:00, though all the speakers were excellent. Full-screening will hide the slides.)  Nevertheless, I've added hyperlinks to the transcript and interpolated the … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing at IMLS WebWise 2012

Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription

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Whenever I talk about crowd-sourced transcription--actually whenever I talk about crowdsourced anything--the first question people ask is about accuracy. Nobody trusts the public add to an institution's data/meta-data, nor especially to correct it. However, quality control over data entry is a well-explored problem, and while I'm not familiar with the literature from industry … [Read more...] about Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription

A Developer Goes to AHA2012

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Last Sunday I returned from the 2012 meeting of the American Historical Association.  Although I have attended my share of conferences and unconferences--from Lone Star Ruby Con to Dreamforce and Texas State Historical Association to Museum Computer Network--I'd never attended one of the big mid-year academic conferences before.  The experience was strange but … [Read more...] about A Developer Goes to AHA2012