On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:20:48 -0500, Ben Brumfield <benwbrum@gmail.com>
wrote:
Ben,> 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%A9partementales_des_Alpes-Maritimesand
>
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2012/04/french-departmental-archive-on.html)
>
>
> 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/
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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