Collaborative Manuscript Transcription

Wikisource is powered by a MediaWiki extension which allows page images to be displayed beside the wiki editing form. This extension also h...

Last night, the Zooniverse folks announced their latest venture: Ancient Lives , which invites the public to help analyze the Oxyrhynchus P...

Writing at the JISC Digitization Blog, Alastair Dunning warns of " problems with crowdsourcing having the ability to create multiple ed...

A couple of recent interactions have made me realize that I've never publicly articulated my goals in developing FromThePage. Like anyo...

2010 was the year that collaborative manuscript transcription finally caught on. Back when I started work on FromThePage in 2005, I got th...

2010 saw big changes in FromThePage. The Balboa Park Online Collaborative started using FromThePage to transcribe the field notes of herpet...

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...