[Wikisource-l] CfP Crowdsourcing workshop at DH 2016

2016-04-15 Thread Ben Brumfield
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

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scribe

2015-11-24 Thread Ben Brumfield
Almost every crowdsourced transcription tool uses a variation on the name "Scribe": See the list at http://tinyurl.com/TranscriptionToolGDoc for a sampling, as well as Transkribus, Transcriptorium, etc. Ben http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Federico Lev

Re: [Wikisource-l] Virtual Transcription Laboratory

2015-10-08 Thread Ben Brumfield
I swapped a few tweets with the developer, Adam Dudczak (maneo on Twitter) back in 2013. Looking at his LinkedIn profile, it seems he left that job in early 2014. If you find out more about the status of VTL, I'd love to hear about it. Ben Brumfield http://fromthepage.com/

[Wikisource-l] GLAMs crowdsourcing transcription and branding

2014-11-26 Thread Ben Brumfield
In a separate thread (sorry--digest mode bit me), Dominic wrote: Many cultural institutions are developing their own crowdsourced transcription projects. I think Wikisource can be a much more robust platform than these one-off projects, with a more well-developed community that aggregates the tran

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource for archival transcription

2013-09-19 Thread Ben Brumfield
I'll be presenting on crowdsourced transcription at the Midwest Archives Conference Fall Symposium next week and would like to spend some time on Wikisource and examples of small-to-medium sized archives working with Wikisource to transcribe handwritten material. I know about the US NARA-Wikisourc

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource-l Digest, Vol 252, Issue 1

2013-09-13 Thread Ben Brumfield
rnative to ProofRead Page, I suspect that the Bentham Transcription Desk might be a more appropriate, pure-MediaWiki alternative. Ben Brumfield http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/ On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:00 AM, wrote: > Send Wikisource-l mailing list submissions to

[Wikisource-l] CfP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing (11-13 July at U. Sask.)

2013-04-12 Thread Ben Brumfield
. Proposers accepted from this open call will join some thirty invited conference participants, drawn from scholarly editing, digital humanities, and the 'citizen scholar' movement. Confirmed participants are Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Ben Brumfield, Gabriel Egan, Paul Eggert, Paul Flemons