What's a transcribathon? In the words of Paul Dingman of the Folger Shakespeare Library, on the very first transcribathon in 2014: “Transcribathon, an event running from noon to midnight in which we transcribe and encode manuscripts..." Your transcribathon doesn't have be a 12 hour long marathon, but we've gathered a list of ideas from other transcribathons that … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Host a Great Transcribathon
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Preservable Digital Editions at AHA2018
This post is transcript of my presentation at the 2018 meeting of the American Historical Association, on the panel Primary Sources and the Historical Profession in the Age of Text Search, Part 3: Digital Texts and the Future of Digital History: Challenges, Opportunities, and Experimentation in Digital Documentary Editing, including slides and audio. Good morning. … [Read more...] about Preservable Digital Editions at AHA2018
Hashtags for Community Building
As we touched on in our earlier post about the Smithsonian Transcription Center and their successful team of volunteer transcribers, the hashtag #volunpeers was first used by the Center's project coordinator Dr. Meghan Ferriter. In the four years since Ferriter coined the term, in April 2014, it has taken off as a popular hashtag across a wide variety of host repositories, … [Read more...] about Hashtags for Community Building
Engaging with volunteers: Smithsonian Transcription Center
"Volunpeers” is a flexible term for volunteers, organizations, and institutions to succinctly represent the knowledge-building activities and collaborative enterprise in which they are engaged. -Dr. Meghan Ferriter, Project Coordinator, Smithsonian Transcription Center If you're considering recruiting volunteers for your transcription project, you don't want to miss some of … [Read more...] about Engaging with volunteers: Smithsonian Transcription Center
"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