nt of or support for a peer network for humanities
crowdsourcing.
The workshop is organised by Mia Ridge (British Library), Meghan Ferriter
(Smithsonian Transcription Centre), Christy Henshaw (Wellcome Library) and
Ben Brumfield (FromThePage).
We anticipate accepting 30 participants. You can appl
who would see
value in a digest-mode option that excluded job postings.
Ben Brumfield
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/
ols I developed for processing
entomology labels was re-used successfully by folks at the Early Modern OCR
Project for their work dealing with 18th-century English printed books.
I wrote up the experience here:
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/search/label/hackathon
Ben Brumfield
of the privilege you
have (to market yourself or something).
I have very strong opinions on this, but anyone else interested might want to
read the links and comment thread at Marty Haught's post:
http://martyhaught.com/articles/2011/06/07/conference-organizing-and-speakers/
Ben Brumfield
d under an Apache license. (In fact, the
source code under development already is.)
Ben Brumfield
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/
f transcription tools used in crowdsourcing
projects here: http://tinyurl.com/TranscriptionToolGDoc
Currently there are around 30 that I know of, and I'd be happy
to give my opinion of what's appropriate for your project on or off
list.
Ben Brumfield
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/
. Nevertheless, I'd recommend taking a look at the
documentations for the REST API they developed:
https://github.com/idigbio-aocr/RESTAPI/tree/master/doc
Ben Brumfield
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/