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What’s the Difference Between a Crowdsourcing Volunteer and a Medieval Scribe?

December 1, 2021 By Ben Brumfield

I’ve been studying ways we might reduce errors--including my own!--in crowdsourced transcription projects. Part of that work has been analyzing a dataset of raw volunteer contributions to the Missouri State Archives death certificate indexing project, but another part has been reading what textual scholars have written about errors left by ancient and medieval scribes. Eugène … [Read more...] about What’s the Difference Between a Crowdsourcing Volunteer and a Medieval Scribe?

Transcription for Pedagogy

November 2, 2021 By Sara Brumfield

There's a Classics professor, Adam Rabinowitz, at the University of Texas at Austin, who uses FromThePage as a teaching tool in an undergraduate course. The class — "Tales of the Trojan War: from Bronze Age to Silver Screen"— works with a collection of letters from Alexander Watkins Terrell, Texas judge and legislator, an early regent at the University of Texas, and Grover … [Read more...] about Transcription for Pedagogy

Crowdsourcing: Free Labor or Free Puppy?

October 11, 2021 By Sara Brumfield

Sitting next to a senior leader of a European library at a IIIF event, he expressed concern that asking volunteers to work on transcribing was taking unfair advantage of free labor.  My internal reaction was, “you just want to keep all the good stuff for yourself!” -- but of course I didn’t say that.  I talked about meaningful volunteer work and how -- since our … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing: Free Labor or Free Puppy?

The Transcription Quality Balancing Act

September 19, 2021 By Ben Brumfield

We're often asked about the quality of crowdsourced transcription projects by people skeptical that amateurs can edit historic documents.  Of course we're confident that amateurs can do high-quality work--especially in active collaboration with professionals--or else we wouldn't be doing this.  But many questions remain. What is "quality"? While writing the first … [Read more...] about The Transcription Quality Balancing Act

An Archivist's Tale Podcast - The Power of These Primary Sources to Bring Meaning

September 13, 2021 By Bethany Radcliff

Back in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Ben and Sara Brumfield sat with Karen Trivette and Geof Huth, husband and wife, and partners who run the podcast An Archivist's Tale. In this podcast, Ben and Sara discuss the origin story of FromThePage, their own backgrounds leading up to working in transcription software, motivations for the work they do, notable FromThePage … [Read more...] about An Archivist's Tale Podcast - The Power of These Primary Sources to Bring Meaning

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