Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
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Title
Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
Project Item Type Metadata
Title
Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
Description
Proposal to create an open source transcription tool to enable researchers to access handwritten historical documents.
To be used with Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and a few other test sites.
(Budget Justification documents have been redacted)
To be used with Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and a few other test sites.
(Budget Justification documents have been redacted)
Start Date
07/01/2010
End Date
06/01/2011
Director(s)
Sharon Leon
Web Designer(s)
Chris Raymond
Programmers
Jim Safley
Affiliates
Minnesota Historical Society
Independence Seaport Museum
Deliverables
An open-source transcription tool that brings together 1) a modified wiki package with versioning, user login and authentication, and the ability for discussion; 2) a JavaScript-based document viewer that allows users to zoom in on high resolution images of documents.
A model for creating CMS adapters that will connect the transcription tool to potentially any content management system (Omeka, Drupal, Wordpress, etc.), allowing both for the call of the document images and the return of the transcription text to the main archive.
A Guide to Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription that provides both technical and practical advice for editors of digital documentary archives who wish to deploy the tool.
Funder
National Endowment for the Humanities
Funding Amount
$49,215
Technology Used
JavaScript
PHP
Files
Collection
Citation
“Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool,” RRCHNM20, accessed December 22, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/195.
Item Relations
| This Item | foaf:fundedBy | Item: National Endowment for the Humanities |
| This Item | Staff | Item: Sharon Leon |