Tanner Potts is Research Associate for the Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race and Reconciliation at the University of the South. First, tell us about your documents. Our documents on FromThePage focus on the founding period of the University of the South, 1856-1868. During this time, the ten southern-most dioceses of the Episcopal church united to found a university that … [Read more...] about Project Profile: Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race and Reconciliation
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Jumping In With Both Feet
Although I didn't know it at the time, since I began work on FromThePage in 2005 I've had one toe in the digital humanities community. I've worked on FromThePage and I've blogged about crowdsourced manuscript transcription. I've met some smart, friendly people doing fascinating things and I've even taught some of them the magic of regular expressions. But I've … [Read more...] about Jumping In With Both Feet
My Goals for FromThePage
A couple of recent interactions have made me realize that I've never publicly articulated my goals in developing FromThePage. Like anyone else managing a multi-year project, my objectives have shifted over time. However, there are three main themes of my work developing web-based software for transcribing handwritten documents: Transcribing and publishing family diaries. … [Read more...] about My Goals for FromThePage
Progress Report: GitHub, Archive.org Integration, and General Availability
2010 saw big changes in FromThePage. The Balboa Park Online Collaborative started using FromThePage to transcribe the field notes of herpetologist Laurence Klauber. Perian Sully, Rich Cherry, and all the other folks there have been fantastic to work with: full of enthusiasm and new ideas for the system while patient with the bugs that we've discovered. This is the first … [Read more...] about Progress Report: GitHub, Archive.org Integration, and General Availability
Feature plan for 2010
Three years ago, I laid out a plan for getting FromThePage to general availability. Since that time, I completed most of the features I thought necessary, gained some dedicated users, and saw the software used to transcribe and annotate over a thousand pages of Julia Brumfield's diaries. However, most of the second half of 2009 was spent using the product in my editorial … [Read more...] about Feature plan for 2010