On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:20:48 -0500, Ben Brumfield benwbrum@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%A9partem...
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2012/04/french-departmental-arch...)
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,
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