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<blockquote>BiSciCol (Biological Science Collections) Tracker is a funded NSF collaborative project with the goal of building an infrastructure designed to tag and track scientific collections and all of their derivatives.</blockquote> | <blockquote>BiSciCol (Biological Science Collections) Tracker is a funded NSF collaborative project with the goal of building an infrastructure designed to tag and track scientific collections and all of their derivatives.</blockquote> | ||
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Hackathon participant, [[2013_Hackathon_Participants#Ben_Brumfield| Ben Brumfield's]] | Hackathon participant, [[2013_Hackathon_Participants#Ben_Brumfield| Ben Brumfield's]] open-source transcription tool is FromThePage. While mainly in use to transcribe and index historical or literary material, it's also been used for herpetology field notes. Check out the shared instance at [http://fromthepage.com FromThePage.com], and read more about the world of crowdsourced transcription/OCR-correction at [http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com Ben's blog] | ||
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<blockquote>FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It's easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search. </blockquote> | <blockquote>FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It's easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search. </blockquote> | ||