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.
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
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 wildhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Make_Every_Minute_Count_For_Pershing._Unites_States_Shipping_Board_Emergency_Fleet_Corporation.%22,_ca._1917_-_ca._1919_-_NARA_-_512446.tif ).
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 assignmenthttp://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@gmail.com wrote:
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
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