Collaborative Manuscript Transcription

Via Twitter and the TEI-L mailing list , I see that Jens Brokfeld, a graduate student in Potsdam, is conducting a survey of projects using ...

Yesterday I presented a guide to choosing software for crowdsourced manuscript transcription at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. ...

This post expands upon an email I sent to James Edward Gray II , my mentor in regular expressions, whom I thank for his generosity. For t...

When I first started this blog, I spent a lot of time writing detailed reviews of different transcription projects.  This has become difficu...

While the transcription world buzzes with news of the release of the 1940 US census and the crowdsourced transcription projects that surroun...

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...