I think between the examples you already know of and the ones Andrew
mentions, you already have all the major institutions on Wikisource in
English. The Archives of American Art has had language on its Wikipedia
WikiProject asking for transcriptions on Wikisource, but only a few pages
have been done and not in an organized way.
Though NARA is a large institution, it may be interesting to note that all
of the work it did on Wikisource was the result of a little time put in by
an intern (me), and no full-time staff aside from the work that had already
gone into digitizing and describing those records. And the Wikisource
community, of course. One of the main innovations we developed was the
"Transcribe" button which is on all NARA image uploads on Commons and
preloads the Wikisource transcription page (see it in the
wild<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Make_Every_Minute_Count_…
).
And for a little more on the SLQ project already mentioned: see "Pitch
in!<http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/about-us/pitch-in>"
and the transcription
assignment<http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/about-us/pitch-in/transcribe>,
which is a public-facing, non-wiki editor entry point for the SLQ's
Wikisource project. (I think this site may be based on NARA's Citizen
Archivist Dashboard <http://archives.gov/citizen-archivist/>.)
On 19 September 2013 08:38, billinghurst <billinghurst(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:20:48 -0500, Ben Brumfield
<benwbrum(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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-Wikisource example--though it's a bit too big
to
be relevant for my audience--and really like the
Archives departmental
des
Alpes-Maritimes on Wikisource.fr (see
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Partenariats/Archives_D%C3%A9parte…
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2012/04/french-departmental-arc…
)
> Are there other good examples of libraries and archives working with
> Wikisource for handwritten material I should point to? Are there "how
to"s
similar to the GLAM-Wiki guides? I'm fine
dealing with French, German,
or
> Spanish, but suspect my audience would prefer Engish-language projects.
> Ben
>
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/
Ben,
Speak to John Vandenberg, he has somewhat recently set up
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject SLQ
based around the provision of images from the State Library of Queensland.
We also had a crew from University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
(if I remember correctly) working on
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Field_Notes_of_Junius_Henderson
Regards, Billinghurst
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