Your First Crowdsourcing Project
Join Ben and Sara Brumfield of FromThePage as they step you through your first crowdsourcing project. The session covers selecting material, finding volunteers, developing transcription conventions, keeping volunteers engaged, and what to do with your transcriptions once you're done.
The webinar is on September 24, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT, 11:00 AM CDT, and 9:00 AM PDT. Signing up will send you an invitation with the details and a follow up with the recording.
Indexing at Scale Using AI Double-Keying With Humans in the Loop
The Industrial Archives collection includes more than 100,000 Bethlehem Steel Works blueprints, containing key metadata about each job, including the customer, part, dimensions, and use, but no item-level index for researchers. This session explores an “AI double-keying” experiment that uses two multimodal AI models to extract this metadata. By comparing their results and flagging discrepancies, the workflow identifies images for review and correction by Industrial Archives staff in FromThePage. Nick Zmiejewski, Archivist at Industrial Archives & Library, and Ben Brumfield of FromThePage will share what worked, what didn’t, and lessons learned for future projects. Can AI double-keying with staff review be a responsible approach to archival workflows? Come find out.
The webinar is on October 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT, 12:00 PM CDT, and 10:00 AM PDT. Signing up will send you an invitation with the details and a follow up with the recording.
Building a Transcription Community: Acadia National Park and the Samuel Hadlock Account Book
Marie C. Yarborough, Curator at Acadia National Park, shares the story of building a volunteer transcription community around the Samuel Hadlock Account Book. This webinar explores why these historic materials were selected and the challenges they present. Marie will discuss how volunteers were recruited, how they collaborate, and what it takes to manage the project. She’ll also look ahead to how the completed transcriptions will make the materials more accessible.
The webinar is on October 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT, 11:00 AM CDT, and 9:00 AM PDT. Signing up will send you an invitation with the details and a follow up with the recording.
Experimenting with AI Transcription and Structured Data at Queensland State Archives
Queensland State Archives has been experimenting with AI Drafts to make large handwritten collections more accessible—including using field-based AI transcription to extract names, dates, subjects, and other structured data from historical registers.
In this webinar, Senior Archivist Julanne Neal will share Queensland State Archives’ experience applying AI Drafts to correspondence, registers, and challenging microfilmed records. She’ll discuss what has worked, what hasn’t, and what the Archives has learned about configuring fields, working with imperfect source material, reviewing AI-generated results, and deciding where AI can usefully support—or accelerate—human transcription. Sara and Ben Brumfield will also provide a brief introduction to FromThePage’s AI transcription tools and join Julanne for a practical discussion of the opportunities and limitations of AI-assisted transcription.
The webinar is on November 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM AEST (November 11 at 8:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM CST, and 5:00 PM PST). Signing up will send you an invitation with the details and a follow up with the recording.