Comments on: A Look Inside J. Paul Getty’s Newly Digitized Diaries http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-look-inside-j-paul-getty-newly-digitized-diaries/ The online magazine of the Getty Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:32:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Cyndi Shein http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-look-inside-j-paul-getty-newly-digitized-diaries/#comment-12404 Cyndi Shein Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:16:33 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=2932#comment-12404 Laure! You are as practiced as any of us in reading Mr. Getty's handwriting. We'd love for you to participate in the transcription project once it's up and running! Laure! You are as practiced as any of us in reading Mr. Getty’s handwriting. We’d love for you to participate in the transcription project once it’s up and running!

]]> By: Cyndi Shein http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-look-inside-j-paul-getty-newly-digitized-diaries/#comment-12402 Cyndi Shein Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:07:40 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=2932#comment-12402 Thanks, Ben! Melissa Terra's blog post is a great resource that I had not seen before. We have been looking at most of the sites/projects mentioned there, especially the Bentham project. We are still exploring the available technologies. We'll keep you posted! Thanks, Ben! Melissa Terra’s blog post is a great resource that I had not seen before. We have been looking at most of the sites/projects mentioned there, especially the Bentham project. We are still exploring the available technologies. We’ll keep you posted!

]]> By: Laure Marest-Caffey http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-look-inside-j-paul-getty-newly-digitized-diaries/#comment-12249 Laure Marest-Caffey Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:30:11 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=2932#comment-12249 I had no idea they were being digitized! This is fantastic. I had no idea they were being digitized! This is fantastic.

]]> By: Ben Brumfield http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-look-inside-j-paul-getty-newly-digitized-diaries/#comment-12150 Ben Brumfield Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:24:48 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=2932#comment-12150 <i>We will soon launch a website that will invite your participation to perform the transcriptions (via crowdsourcing), thus rendering the diaries keyword-searchable and dramatically improving their accessibility.</i> Have you decided on a transcription technology yet? Several exist or are in development--see <a href="http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/2010/03/crowdsourcing-manuscript-material.html" rel="nofollow">Melissa Terras's blog post on the subject</a>--but if you're building your own I do hope you'll post about the resulting tool. We will soon launch a website that will invite your participation to perform the transcriptions (via crowdsourcing), thus rendering the diaries keyword-searchable and dramatically improving their accessibility.

Have you decided on a transcription technology yet? Several exist or are in development–see Melissa Terras’s blog post on the subject–but if you’re building your own I do hope you’ll post about the resulting tool.

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