Ur Crowdsourcing IV

[whafford]

The UrCrowdsource site went live today. In two categories, letters and field notes, 349 documents are currently allocated to be transcribed, but more are on their way. I don't have metadata or relationships between documents associated yet, but am working slowly to put that together. I'd hoped to allow the public to do that as well, but the way the

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Ur Crowdsourcing IV

[livejournal]

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[lawbabeak]

I got my emails. Sunday I will have time to dive in, I hope.

[haniaw]

I've dived right in and am really enjoyed reading the material as I type. One tip to others, copy the typed material into Word and do a spellcheck and then copy back. This is helping me keep the transciption free of errors.

[whafford]

Thanks! It's great to see that people are picking up the banner and moving right in.

Too bad spell checking can't be done directly in the text box, but then again, if the spelling error was original (Woolley or whoever wrote the letter made the mistake) we want to keep it in. And in some cases, there are words that seem to be misspelled but really aren't, so we have to watch for those. One of my test volunteers, for example, wanted to change the word 'shewn' to 'shown' since that's how we spell the word now. But in Woolley's day and particularly among the British, 'shew' and 'shewn' were common.

Thanks again.