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Interview: Sonya Coleman on Transcribing for the Library of Virginia and Coding New Features for FromThePage

May 24, 2019 by FromThePage

"Ben and Sara worked with our team at the Library to upload all the images, make the form properly, and even incorporate new features we needed."

Sonya Coleman is Digital Engagement + Social Media Coordinator at the Library of Virginia. First, tell us about your documents. The Library of Virginia houses over 124 million archival items, including state and local records, personal papers, microfilm, maps, photographs, and more. Many of these documents contain structured data, such as the World War I Questionnaires. These … [Read more...] about Interview: Sonya Coleman on Transcribing for the Library of Virginia and Coding New Features for FromThePage

Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records

August 4, 2018 by Ben Brumfield

On August 2, 2018, Meredith McDonough of the Alabama Department of Archives and History and Ben Brumfield of Brumfield Labs presented "Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records" at the CONTENTdm User Meeting.  Our fellow panelists were Phil Sager and Kristen Newby of the Ohio History Connection, who presented on the crowdsourced transcription system they had built … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing the Alabama World War I Service Records

Crowdsourcing with CONTENTdm and FromThePage

May 7, 2018 by Ben Brumfield

We are pleased to announce that FromThePage now integrates with CONTENTdm, the digital collections management system created by OCLC.  Through this integration, CONTENTdm users can launch crowdsourcing projects on FromThePage without the need for uploading image files, copying metadata, or cut-and-pasting user contributions into their digital collections. How it … [Read more...] about Crowdsourcing with CONTENTdm and FromThePage

LatAm: A Historical Gazetteer for Latin America and the Caribbean

May 2, 2018 by Ben Brumfield

We are pleased to announce that Pelagios Commons has awarded a Resource Development Grant to an international collaboration of digital humanities scholars from Brumfield Labs, LLILAS Benson, World Historical Gazetteer,  and CONICET. The collaboration will develop a linked dataset for colonial Latin America, based on Anntonio de Alcedo’s ​Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las … [Read more...] about LatAm: A Historical Gazetteer for Latin America and the Caribbean

New IIIF Support in FromThePage

March 22, 2018 by Ben Brumfield

The latest version of the FromThePage crowdsourcing platform includes major enhancements to its IIIF support. The full documentation is available at FromThePage Support for the IIIF Presentation API and Web Annotations, but here are some highlights: Collection Import Launching a large crowdsourcing project from a IIIF-compliant digital library system is now easier and more … [Read more...] about New IIIF Support in FromThePage

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