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Crowdsourced transcription ahoy!
Regular readers know that I’m interested in the idea of crowdsourced transcription for archival materials (perhaps more accurately called nerd-sourcing). But while talking to colleagues at Radcliffe’s...
View ArticleWomen’s history & Wikipedia’s gender gap
Wikipedia is in the news again, this time for some unsurprising news about its gender gap; apparently only about 15% of its contributors are women. (It’s worth noting, though, that Wikipedia’s...
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WikiProject Women’s History: the first week
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been a week since I started WikiProject Women’s History. Initially, I did it on a lark, but then I blogged about it and passed the link around. I started this...
View ArticleAHA 2012 proposal: Crowdsourcing History
(Welcome, AHA 2012 attendees! If you got to this page from the AHA Annual Meeting program, please know that we’ve established a blog for our session which contains more up-to-date information as well...
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Announcing the US Children’s Bureau Papers Project
Source: SSA History Archives, via Larry DeWitt. Last week, I had the good fortune to present an invited talk at the Radcliffe Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing, a small gathering of...
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