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Marriage certificate transcription helps COVID care (!)

January 6, 2022 by Sara Brumfield

Liz Coelho, Director of Special Projects at the Maryland State Archives, recently sent this to her transcribers: Many thanks to you for your help with our FromThePage marriage certificate projects in 2021. Your work has made it possible for the Archives to quickly assist many people with their requests for marriage certificates. On my first day back in the new year I got a … [Read more...] about Marriage certificate transcription helps COVID care (!)

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

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

Building a Structured Transcription Tool with FreeUKGen

October 3, 2012 by Ben Brumfield

I'm currently working with FreeUKGen--the charity behind the genealogy database FreeBMD--to build a general-purpose, open-source tool for crowdsourced transcription of structured manuscript data into a searchable database. We're basing our system on the Scribe tool developed for the Citizen Science Alliance for What's the Score at the Bodleian, which originated out of their … [Read more...] about Building a Structured Transcription Tool with FreeUKGen

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