Collaborative Manuscript Transcription

The video of the crowdsourcing panel at IMLS WebWise is online, so I thought I'd post my talk.  Like anyone who's created a transcr...

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 communi...

Whenever I talk about crowd-sourced transcription--actually whenever I talk about crowdsourced anything --the first question people ask is a...

Crowdsourced transcription projects--and FromThePage in particular--have gotten some really nice press in the last few weeks. Konrad Lawso...

Last Sunday I returned from the 2012 meeting of the American Historical Association.  Although I have attended my share of conferences and ...

Last year I reviewed Wikisource as a platform for manuscript transcription projects, concluding that the ProofreadPage plug-in was quite ve...

MCN2011 Crowdsourcing Transcription View more presentations from benwbrum . These are links to the papers, websites, and systems menti...

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...