transcription – THATCamp CHNM 2013 http://chnm2013.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:36:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Transcribathon – Citizen Archivist Sessions http://chnm2013.thatcamp.org/06/06/citizen-archivist/ Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:45:59 +0000 http://chnm2013.thatcamp.org/?p=529

We hope you’ll join the team from the Innovation Office of the National Archives to learn more about the Citizen Archivist Dashboard and take part in a transcribathon!

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For the first Transcribathon session (Friday @ 11 am) we’ll do a quick overview of the dashboard and walk you through the National Archives Transcription Pilot and then we’ll get to transcribing!

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In addition to the documents already on the site, we’ve uploaded Harriet Tubman Davis Widow’s Pension File — all 112 pages of it! — just for the event.  It’s a fascinating document and we hope you can help us make it more accessible.

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For the second Transcribathon session (Friday @ 1:30 pm), we’ll do a quick overview of the Citizen Archivist Dashboard and demo how to tag in our online catalog and National Archives records in Flickr.  We imagine this session to be a bit more freestyle – you can tag, transcribe, or try out another project on the dashboard.  We’ll answer your questions and assist you as you try out the tools.

We love feedback — let us know on this post or in person!

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