Collaborative Manuscript Transcription

The last few weeks have seen the announcement of two new transcription projects. I'm particularly excited about them because--like From...

The ever-innovative North American Bird Phenology Program has just released the results of their user satisfaction survey . In addition to ...

Militieregisters.nl is a new transcription project organized by the City Archive Amsterdam that plans to use crowdsourcing to index militia...

Two important errata in previous posts are worth highlighting: Wikisource for Manuscript Transcription Commenters on my most recent post, ...

Of the crowdsourcing projects that have real users doing manuscript transcription, one of the largest is an offshoot of Wikisource . Proofr...

Last week, I posted a new document to FromThePage and inadvertently conducted a little experiment on how to publicize crowdsourcing. Somet...

Three years ago, I laid out a plan for getting FromThePage to general availability. Since that time, I completed most of the features I ...

I've been thinking a lot about page-to-subject links lately as I edit and annotate Julia Brumfield's 1921 diary. While I've be...

While editing and annotating Julia Brumfield's 1919 diary , I've tried to do research on the people who appear there. Who was Josie...

One of the neatest things to happen in the world of transcription technology this year was the award of an NEH ODH Digital Humanities Start...

Who knew you could track climate change through crowdsourced transcription? The smart folks at the U. S. Geological Survey, that's who!...

I've reached a point in my development project at which I'd like to go ahead and release FromThePage as Open Source. There are now...

In the last couple of weeks, I've implemented most of the features in the editorial toolkit . Scribes can identify unannotated pages fr...

At last week's Austin On Rails SXSW party, my friend and compatriot Steve Odom gave me a really neat feature idea. "Why don't...

As anyone reading this blog through the Blogspot website knows, visual design is not one of my strengths. One of the challenges that users...

I'm pleased to report that my cousin Linda Tucker has finished transcribing the 1919 diary . I've been trying my best to keep up wi...

I've spent the last couple of weeks as a FromThePage user working seriously on annotation. This mainly involves identifying the people ...

It's been more than half a year since I've updated this blog. During that period, due to some events in my personal life , I was on...

Over the past couple of months, I've gotten a lot of user feedback relating to workflow. Paraphrased, they include: How do I mark a pag...

I just got back from THATCamp , and man, what a ride! I've never been to a conference with this level of collaboration before -- neithe...