This is a transcript of the talk I gave at Digital Frontiers 2012. Abstract: One of the ironies of the Internet age is that traditional standards for accessibility have changed radically. Intelligent members of the public refer to undigitized manuscripts held in a research library as "locked away", even though anyone may study the well-cataloged, well-preserved material in the … [Read more...] about Bilateral Digitization at Digital Frontiers 2012
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Survey on Crowdsourced Transcription Tools
Via Twitter and the TEI-L mailing list, I see that Jens Brokfeld, a graduate student in Potsdam, is conducting a survey of projects using transcription tools for his thesis, “Creating Digital Editions with Crowdsourced Manuscript Transcription: A Tool Evaluation”. I encourage readers of this blog to take the survey and help advance the field. In case that your … [Read more...] about Survey on Crowdsourced Transcription Tools
Transcription Tools at TCDL 2012
Yesterday I presented a guide to choosing software for crowdsourced manuscript transcription at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Here are the slides from that talk: … [Read more...] about Transcription Tools at TCDL 2012
Crowdsourced Transcription Tool List
When I first started this blog, I spent a lot of time writing detailed reviews of different transcription projects. This has become difficult as my available time shrinks and the number of crowdsourcing projects grows. So when Kate Bowers posted to the Society of American Archivists mailing list asking for a directory of transcription tools, I figured it was time to … [Read more...] about Crowdsourced Transcription Tool List
French Departmental Archive on Wikisource
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