Re: [PEIRCE-L] opportunities for transcribing Peirce?

[Jeffrey Brian Downard]

Hello Orin,


Terry Moore and I have spearheaded the SPIN project, which has the aim of using 
online tools to support collaborative efforts to transcribe Peirce's 
manuscripts into a searchable form.


Here is a link to the site:  
https://fromthepage.com/collection/show?collection_id=16

C. S. Peirce Manuscripts | 
FromThePage
fromthepage.com
C. S. Peirce Manuscripts - collection overview. The goal of the Scalable Peirce 
Interpretation Network (SPIN) is to develop a model environment for distributed 
collaboration that can support an international network of researchers, 
students, and citizen scholars in cooperative efforts to encode and interpret 
handwritten manuscripts, including those of high complexity. As our testbed, we 
plan to use the "Logic Notebook" that Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of 
Pragmatism, kept as the seedbed and greenhouse for his ideas together with 
related sets of manuscripts in logic and semiotics. We are treating the pages 
in the MS 145 folder as a sandbox. Take the platform for a test run and play 
with the toolset. The enhanced set of LaTeX tools for encoding the algebraic 
formulas and graphical diagrams have been added, and a set of guidelines for 
making the encodings is ready to go. Here are links to Transcription Guidelines 
on the SPIN Project website, digital images of the Ma



Thus far, the network of volunteers has transcribed about 2000 pages. If there 
are particular texts of interest to an individual or group who would like to 
make a concerted effort, then I would be willing to upload requested sets into 
the system if they are not already there. The resulting transcriptions can be 
downloaded in a large number of formats. If anyone has questions about getting 
started, guidelines are available via a link on the home page. If the 
information there does not answer any questions, let me know.


Yours,


Jeff


Jeffrey Downard
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Northern Arizona University
(o) 928 523-8354



From: Orin Hargraves 
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 6:19 AM
To: Peirce-L
Subject: [PEIRCE-L] opportunities for transcribing Peirce?

Hello,

I remember seeing in this list a link (perhaps more than one) to opportunities 
for transcribing Peirce's writings but I can't find it in the archive.

I've met a scholar who is adept at this and is eager to contribute.  I would 
appreciate a reminder about where I can find this.

Thanks,
Orin Hargraves

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Re: [PEIRCE-L] Collaborative research on Peirce's logic and semiotics

[Aisha]

Sending this out in response Orin Hargrave’s  question.

> On Jan 20, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Jeffrey Brian Downard  
> wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> A group that includes Kees de Waal, John Kaag, Terry Moore and myself have 
> been working on a project called the Scalable Peirce Interpretation Network 
> (SPIN).  We are trying to recruit three sets of people:
> 
> 1. Individual scientists who draw on Peirce's ideas in their work, and who 
> will help identify outstanding questions concerning logic and semiotics that 
> arise in their research and discuss the issues.
> 2. Groups of Peirce scholars who will transcribe pages in the Logic Notebook 
> and related manuscripts in logic and semiotics—especially those having higher 
> degrees of complexity.
> 3. A crowdsource group of individuals who would like to transcribe the more 
> straightforward pages of the manuscripts.
> 
> A short description of the project is attached.  Up to this point, we have 
> recruited 10 groups of scholars to do what is described in (2).  These groups 
> will be lead by Fernando Zalamea (Colombia group), Ahti Pietarinen (Finland 
> group), Doug Anderson (US-midwest group), Giovanni Maddalena (Italy group), 
> James Liszka (US-East), Cheryl Misak (Canada group), Shigeyuki Atarashi 
> (Japan group), and (newly added) Frederik Stjernfeldt.  Gary Fuhrman has 
> offered to help organize a crowdsource group that we are hoping to recruit 
> from the Peirce-List in the upcoming months.
> 
> If you are a scientist, logician or mathematician who draws on Peirce's ideas 
> in your work, then I would like to ask if you would write a letter saying 
> that you are willing to collaborate with others on the project.   In order to 
> participate in SPIN, the scientists do not need to be scholarly experts in 
> Peirce’s writings.  In fact, we are hoping to recruit scientists with a wide 
> range of interests and experience when it comes to Peirce’s ideas—including 
> those who are fairly new to his works.  The reason we want the scientists in 
> (1) to collaborate with the scholars in (2) is that we think some progress 
> can be made by providing extra opportunities for discussions between the two 
> sets of people.  When the scholars have a better understanding of what is 
> really puzzling to the scientists about how they might use Peirce’s ideas in 
> their research, then the scholars will be able to focus on interpreting 
> manuscripts that might shed light on those questions.  As the scholars 
> transcribe the relevant pages and develop alternate lines interpretations, 
> then they can help to explain to the scientists how Peirce might have been 
> developing those ideas in the vast trove of his unpublished works.  In time, 
> we hope that such discussions will lead to richer forms of collaboration 
> between the scientists and the scholars.
> 
> Several people who have heard about the project have asked if we will be 
> making the manuscripts available online.  Here is the answer to that 
> question:  a link to the FromThePage transcription platform that we are 
> building to support the collaborative research is provided below.  At this 
> point, the platform is set up solely for the purpose of transcribing and 
> interpreting easier pages, and we only have a relatively small number of 
> folders containing manuscripts (largely from the Logic Notebook) that are 
> ready for transcription.  In the next several months, however, it will be 
> extended to include the transcription tools needed to handle the most complex 
> kinds of symbols and diagrams and the social tools needed to carry on 
> discussions.  If you are interested in participating in (2) or (3) above, 
> then start by taking the SPIN transcription platform on FromThePage for a 
> spin.  Anyone who would like to try their hand at transcribing some pages is 
> more than welcome to give it a try.  We are running a pilot study to see how 
> well suited the platform is for these purposes, and we're looking for 
> feedback.
> 
> http://beta.fromthepage.com/collection/show?collection_id=16
> 
> We have created links on our FromThePage site to digital scans of the entire 
> Logic Notebook and to the larger set of manuscripts made from the microfiche. 
>  As far as I know, this is the first time those manuscripts have been made 
> publicly accessible online.  We've checked with Harvard library, and they 
> have given us permission for this project.  Given our current level of 
> startup funding, we can provide up to 10,000 pages of manuscripts on the 
> transcription platform at a time--but the links will take you to folders on a 
> public dropbox account and a picasa page with the full set of images.  In the 
> future, we hope to work our way through larger sets of manuscripts and to 
> make them available in one place with transcriptions, interpretations and 
> translations linked to each page.  That will take us some time and quite a 
> bit of funding, but we hope to kickstart the project in 

[PEIRCE-L] opportunities for transcribing Peirce?

[Orin Hargraves]

Hello,

I remember seeing in this list a link (perhaps more than one) to
opportunities for transcribing Peirce's writings but I can't find it in the
archive.

I've met a scholar who is adept at this and is eager to contribute.  I
would appreciate a reminder about where I can find this.

Thanks,
Orin Hargraves

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