[CODE4LIB] CfP: Crowdsourcing workshop at DH 2016

opment of or support for a peer network for humanities crowdsourcing. The workshop is organised by Mia Ridge (British Library), Meghan Ferriter (Smithsonian Transcription Centre), Christy Henshaw (Wellcome Library) and Ben Brumfield (FromThePage). We anticipate accepting 30 participants. You can appl

Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs

in a digest-mode option that excluded job postings. Ben Brumfield http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/

[CODE4LIB] Biodiversity Specimen Label Transcription Hackathon, applications due Nov 1

developed for processing entomology labels was re-used successfully by folks at the Early Modern OCR Project for their work dealing with 18th-century English printed books. I wrote up the experience here: http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/search/label/hackathon Ben Brumfield http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

of the privilege you have (to market yourself or something). I have very strong opinions on this, but anyone else interested might want to read the links and comment thread at Marty Haught's post: http://martyhaught.com/articles/2011/06/07/conference-organizing-and-speakers/ Ben Brumfield http

[CODE4LIB] Call for Participation: Open Source Indexing

code under development already is.) Ben Brumfield http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/

Re: [CODE4LIB] web-based ocr

recommend taking a look at the documentations for the REST API they developed: https://github.com/idigbio-aocr/RESTAPI/tree/master/doc Ben Brumfield http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Handwriting and ocr

tools used in crowdsourcing projects here: http://tinyurl.com/TranscriptionToolGDoc Currently there are around 30 that I know of, and I'd be happy to give my opinion of what's appropriate for your project on or off list. Ben Brumfield http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/