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How to include Transcriptions into BHL?
There are several projects generating text for BHL that improve the OCR text and we need a suggestion on the best way to integrate these new texts into the BHL Corpus.
The main topics to wrap our discussion around are:
- What to do with current (Qtr.4,2015) existing transcriptions of BHL pages, documents and notes that several different initiatives have produced? and
- How to proceed in the future with new transcriptions?
A group of members from BHL Tech, Admin and Staff was charged with the objective of discussing the topic of incorporating transcriptions in BHL through Conference Calls and email exchange and come up with recomendations and decisions on our next steps.
After an initial meeting on September 8th, 2015, Mike L., BHL's developer was asked to review the process suggested and come up with questions on clarifications needed for an appropriate implementation. A bigger group of colleagues was convened for a follow up meeting, including Technical Advisory Group (TAG) members and Harvard, BHL-Australia and Smithsonian's representatives, as they all had actual experience from current and active projects transcribing BHL contents. Finally, a longer exchange of emails clarified the remaining inquiries and followed up on the recommendations and standing action items. The topic was later discussed in (extended) Technical Group meetings, but the actual implementation of the modifications to BHL code was delayed in lieu of higher priority activities like the move of the BHL Portal from Missouri Botanical Garden to Smithsonian, which took most of the time available from our developer and other TAG members past beyond the end of the year (2015).
Below, you may find the documentation (in reverse order from the most recent to the older) gathered from the discussions and decisions in the Meetings and a copy of the email exchange among different members of the group on the topic.
William Ulate
BHL Technical Director
March 2016
Task Group Members:
Trish Rose-Sandler (MBG); Mike Lichtenberg (MBG); Sheffield, Carolyn (SIL); Crowley, Bianca (SIL); Joseph deVeer (Harvard); Kalfatovic, Martin (SIL); Richard, Joel M (SIL); Kearney, Nicole (BHL-AU); Parilla, Lesley (SIL); Julia Blase (SIL)
From: Kalfatovic, Martin <KalfatovicM@si.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 11:17 AM
To: 'Kearney, Nicole'; William Ulate
Subject: RE: Field book transcriptions on BHL?
Nicole, yes, what Julia said was correct, but it was a special case (the transcript was done years ago and already existed as a print item, so in some ways it was a supplemental volume to the field book).
It can be considered a separate entity; the problem with adding the transcript is that it becomes another item in BHL (e.g. BHL can’t consider it a manifestation of the original for technical reasons).
Lesley Parilla is going to load a few so we can experiment with what the ramifications are for this (e.g. does it get a DOI?) but I don’t want to go into production on this.
Cheers,
Martin------------------------------------------------------------------
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Associate Director, Digital Services Division || Program Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library
Smithsonian Libraries
10th Street & Constitution Ave., NW | Room 29E
MRC 154 PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
email:
kalfatovicm@si.edu
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From: Kearney, Nicole [
mailto:nkearney@museum.vic.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 10:41 PM
To: William Ulate <william.ulate@mobot.org>; Kalfatovic, Martin <KalfatovicM@si.edu>
Subject: FW: Field book transcriptions on BHL?
Hi William and Martin,
Below is my correspondence with Julia (from Jan/Feb) about uploading field books and their transcriptions onto BHL.
Cheers, Nicole
Nicole Kearney
Coordinator |
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Digital & Emerging Technologies, Museum Victoria
PO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001
61 3 8341 7779
From: Kearney, Nicole
Sent: Monday, 2 February 2015 12:07 PM
Subject: RE: Field book transcriptions on BHL?
Hi Julia,
Thank you for all this information and advice. I have read through the documents you sent and looked at the example on BHL. I have discussed these with the rest of the team here at Museum Victoria and with our colleagues at the Australian Museum.
We can certainly upload the original and the transcript as separate documents and then associate them as you’ve described (we will follow this route for now). However, it would be great to be able to view the original and the transcript side by side (as you can on the DigiVol portal and your transcription centre).
An ideal place for the transcription would be in the space occupied by the OCR field in BHL (in the right hand column), with the option of showing or hiding this field (as you can with the OCR). The transcribed text takes up much less space than the handwritten text so it would fit nicely in this side column. We have been very careful to maintain the original formatting in our transcription of the field diaries (line breaks and page breaks). This means that we could ensure that each page of transcript matches each page of handwritten text.
We would definitely like to continue this discussion and would support any changes to BHL that would facilitate the concurrent viewing of handwritten material and its transcribed content.
Thanks again, Nicole
P.S. We have scanned our field diaries as individual pages, not as double page spreads as specified in your guidelines. This is our standard procedure for all our scanning for BHL. We were therefore planning on uploading the field guides into MACAW as separate pages. Will this be a problem or is there a specific reason why you scan yours as double pages?
Nicole Kearney (Mon & Thurs)
Project Coordinator |
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Digital & Emerging Technologies, Museum Victoria
PO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001
61 3 8341 7779
From: Blase, Julia [
mailto:BlaseJ@si.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2015 2:30 AM
To: Kearney, Nicole
Subject: RE: Field book transcriptions on BHL?
Hi Nicole,
That is great news. Our staff also enjoys going through field book transcripts and getting to know the scientists all over again!
To answer the first part of the question, regarding uploading digitized field books into BHL – yes, they do need a MARC record to go through Macaw. However, as we do not create MARC records for our items either, we instead use a MARC metadata map for the item/title level metadata (title, author, date, abstract, series, etc.). We place the metadata into a CSV under the appropriate MARC headings and upload that CSV to Macaw.
After we do so, we and upload the digitized high-res page images to each item-level Macaw record. Then, we create the page level metadata (page numbering, page type such as cover, text, illustration) in Macaw, and send the item off to BHL once it is reviewed complete. Though the process involves those few extra steps, it has worked for us so far:
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/collection/smithsonianfieldbookcollection.
I have attached to this email a draft of our guidelines for importing field books to BHL via Macaw, with the metadata mapping and screenshots, if that clarifies the process at all. I have also attached a sample title-level (also known as the item level) CSV. You can see the element information below the relevant MARC column title. Please let me know if you have questions, or if it would be helpful to schedule a webinar where you can watch us walk through this process once or twice.
In terms of uploading the items with their transcripts…that might be a wider BHL partner question. The short answer is, yes, we have done so, and we can certainly show you how we did it, and help you learn to do the same. The transcripts in our test cases were actually completed by the original author’s assistant when he retired. See an example here:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/97053#/summary.
We loaded the transcripts into Macaw as unique items and, once they appeared in BHL, associated the transcript record in BHL with the original record as a second “volume” in the series. However, as it is now, the transcripts are not associated explicitly with each page of text – for instance, one page of typewritten text might include three pages of information from the handwritten text. Martin had mentioned that the ideal situation would be for all transcripts to be directly associated with the handwritten pages from which they came. Therefore, we have not moved forward with incorporating more transcriptions into our records in BHL. I wonder if a policy decision needs to be made about this situation on a higher level, as more and more partners complete similar projects? What are your thoughts?
In any case, we are thrilled that you are ready to upload your field books into BHL, and happy to help as much as possible.
Best,
From: Kearney, Nicole [
mailto:nkearney@museum.vic.gov.au]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 1:43 AM
To: Blase, Julia
Subject: Field book transcriptions on BHL?
Hi Julia,
Our volunteers have now transcribed a number of field books from our collection. I’ve been reading through the transcripts today and they’re a fascinating read. The curators are very excited about them and would, of course, like to make them available online.
We are therefore pondering the inevitable question – how do we incorporate all this wonderful work into BHL?
We haven’t yet uploaded the digitized field books onto BHL because they do not have a MARC record (this is because they’re part of our Archive Collection rather than our Library Collection). Our understanding is that you cannot upload an item into MACAW unless it has a MARC record. Our library is happy to create a MARC record for each diary, but I just wanted to check with you that they do indeed need one before I ask them to do this.
Ideally we’d like to upload the digitized field books onto BHL with their transcripts attached in some way. I’ve viewed the completed projects on the Smithsonian Transcription Centre, but I’m not aware of the transcripts being available on BHL (excuse my ignorance if they’re there), or of there being a way to link to the transcribed versions from within BHL (again my apologies if I’ve missed this). I
If it isn’t possible to put the transcriptions onto BHL, is this something that you intend to do in the future? If so, we’d love to be involved in this conversation (as it’s certainly a conversation we’re engaging in here).
Any advice/information you could provide me with at this point would be greatly appreciated.
Thanking you in advance, Nicole
Nicole Kearney (Mon & Thurs)
Project Coordinator |
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Digital & Emerging Technologies, Museum Victoria
PO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001
61 3 8341 7779
From: Kalfatovic, Martin <KalfatovicM@si.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 11:13 AM
To: 'Kearney, Nicole'; William Ulate
Subject: RE: Other kinds of Frankenbooks?
Nicole, no, these would not be Frankenbooks.
We only apply the concept to digital manifestations that are created from multiple physical copies.
So, if scientist A compiled a bunch of her favorite articles and a library added that to their collection, that would be fair game for BHL (at the discretion of the contributing library).
The goal is to have the digital manifestation correlate to a physical copy (and I would bet were not 100% pure on that matter).
Does that clarify?
Martin
From: Kearney, Nicole <nkearney@museum.vic.gov.au>
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 10:45 PM
To: William Ulate; Kalfatovic, Martin
Subject: Other kinds of Frankenbooks?
Your mention of Frankenbooks reminds me of another curly issue that has recently cropped up here at BHL-Au.
Our library collection includes bound volumes that are compilations of articles from different journals on particular topics, e.g. Ecology of Australian Snakes. Some of these volumes belonged to eminent scientists and include their hand-written notes bound between the articles. For example, our librarian recently brought me a particularly beautiful 1859 volume that was owned by
Frederick Du Cane Godman. Between the articles are his annotations and stunning illustrations. Then, at our meeting at the Royal Botanic Garden yesterday we were shown a large collection of these “Collected Papers”.
The librarians have asked whether we can digitise these volumes, transcribe the handwritten sections, and put them up on BHL. I suggested that some of the articles would already exist on BHL in their own journals, but they maintained that the annotated compilations are historically significant in their own right (as the annotated volumes from Darwin’s library are).
Reading your email below, I wonder if these are the books your Collections Committee originally called Franken-books (the reference books made out of parts of books). Have you indeed come across such volumes before? Does BHL accept them? (If ever there was a case for including article-level metadata…)
Kind regards, Nicole
Nicole Kearney
Coordinator | Biodiversity Heritage Library
Digital & Emerging Technologies, Museum Victoria
PO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001
61 3 8341 7779
From: Kearney, Nicole <nkearney@museum.vic.gov.au>
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 9:36 PM
To: William Ulate
Cc: Kalfatovic, Martin
Subject: RE: Notes from yesterday's transcription meeting
Hi William and Martin,
Thank you for sending your meeting notes through. I'm feeling a little regretful about not pulling an all-nighter to attend your meeting.
I'm flattered that you've honoured our proposed stop-gap solution with such a great name. Our "Frankenbooks" suggestion was originally just that - a stop gap solution for displaying the transcriptions alongside the original texts within the constraints of existing BHL functionality. However, I do see the benefit for the user of having the original and the transcription appearing side-by-side with matching formatting/layout (as per attached pic).
I discussed the idea of using the OCR field for transcripts with Julia Blase in February – I will forward you this correspondence. This option would certainly be acceptable (providing the field can be labelled “Transcript” when used for transcriptions). It’s an intuitive place to put the transcriptions and would allow users the option of showing or hiding them as required. We’re happy to hear that Mike says this can be done easily!
It was Julia’s suggestion to upload the transcriptions as subsequent volumes of the original title (again see email correspondence from Julia). This was what BHL had done with a previous transcription and we have been following this model. It is interesting to note that this previous transcription was a historic document in its own right, produced on a typewriter by the author’s assistant after he retired:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/97053#/summary. I’m not aware of more recent transcriptions on BHL, other than ours. Are there others?
I agree with Leslie and Martin that being able to search the transcriptions is highly desirable (and that searchability trumps tagging/formatting). I’m interested in Joe’s comments about retaining/losing mark-up for charts, tables, etc. We replaced the mark-up with the actual formatting in the display version of our transcriptions (again see attached), but this would be lost in the OCR field it is worth considering how to display/mark-up tables, etc.
I will stop my evil preparation of Frankenbooks, although we may still consider these monsters for our own website. ;)
Thanks again for involving me in these discussions, Nicole
P.S. As for discussions in person, I generally work on this project on Mondays and Thursdays 9am to 5pm (AEDT – Australian Eastern Daylight Time, UTC/GMT +11 hours), but I could be available any day between 7am and 1am AEDT. If this doesn’t work for you, we can certainly continue to discuss this over email.
Nicole Kearney
Coordinator | Biodiversity Heritage Library
Digital & Emerging Technologies, Museum Victoria
PO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001
61 3 8341 7779
From: William Ulate [
mailto:william.ulate@mobot.org]
Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2015 2:21 AM
To: Kearney, Nicole <nkearney@museum.vic.gov.au>
Cc: Kalfatovic, Martin <KalfatovicM@si.edu>
Subject: Notes from yesterday's transcription meeting
Hi Nicole,
Please find attached our notes from yesterday's meeting on transcriptions.
As you may see, there's a request from the group to ask if you could possibly pause the process of uploading items constructed out of transcriptions into BHL while we are working on the process of figuring out how to handle the PDF of transcriptions (ie. transcription with layout).
Martin and I could meet with you if you would like to discuss this further, just let us know your availability please.
Kind regards,
William
3rd Transcription Group Meeting - BHL Australia + SMI Transcription Center proposals
From: William Ulate
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 2:49 PM
To: Trish Rose-Sandler; Mike Lichtenberg; Sheffield, Carolyn; Crowley, Bianca [CrowleyB@si.edu]; Joseph deVeer; Kalfatovic, Martin; Richard, Joel M; Kearney, Nicole; Parilla, Lesley
Subject: 3rd Transcription Group Meeting - BHL Australia + SMI Transcription Center proposals
When: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 9:00 AM-10:00 AM.
Where: Call 1.866.305.1460 Access code 3594388#
Folks,
Let's meet tomorrow Tuesday at 9a.m. US Central time to discuss Nicole's proposals (see below) and take a careful look at the approach that our Australian Colleagues are following.Attached here you can find our notes from the last meeting (thank you Trish!)Talk to you all tomorrow!
Regards,
William.
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Meeting Notes (Nov. 3rd. 2015):
2015_11_03 transcription discussion.docx
2nd Transcription Group Meeting - Thoughts and Questions
From: William Ulate
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 6:02 PM
To: Trish Rose-Sandler; Mike Lichtenberg; Sheffield, Carolyn; Crowley, Bianca [CrowleyB@si.edu]; deVeer, Joseph; Kalfatovic, Martin; Richard, Joel M; 'Kearney, Nicole'
Subject: 2nd Transcription Group Meeting - Thoughts and Questions
When: Thursday, October 15, 2015 1:00 PM-2:00 PM.
Where: Call 1.866.305.1460 Access code 3594388#
Meeting Notes (Oct. 15 2015):
Transcripton discussion 2015_10_15.docx
- From: Kearney, Nicole <nkearney@museum.vic.gov.au>
- Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 9:59 PM
- To: William Ulate; Mike Lichtenberg; Crowley, Bianca [CrowleyB@si.edu]; Blase, Julia; Richard, Joel M; deVeer, Joseph; Kalfatovic, Martin; Sheffield, Carolyn; Trish Rose-Sandler
- Subject: RE: Transcriptions in BHL - Thoughts/Questions
- Hi Everyone,
- Thank you for including me in this discussion. It’s going to be a little tricky for me to attend the proposed meeting time due to the time difference. However, I’m very interesting in being involved and will put my thoughts down here for your consideration.
- How best to create and display transcriptions of handwritten content has been a hot topic here as well. I presented last week at the MWA2015 (Museums & the Web Asia Conference) and there were some very interesting discussion afterwards. If you’re interested, here are the links to my paperand slides. I have also just had a paper accepted at VALA, our national library conference (see attached). These documents will give you some background regarding our workflow and the issues we’ve been addressing. We have been working closely with DigiVol and they are committed to continuing to improve their online portal to facilitate the transcription of items containing large chunks of handwritten material, such as diaries, journals and field notebooks.
- I have read the notes from your conference call and have the following comments.
- Marking-up text
- Technically, we have not been marking up text because DigiVol does not have mark-up tools, although this is functionality that they may add in the future (and we hope they do). Rather, our transcribers have been manually transcribing dates, species names, locations and mentions of people and organisations into a table below the free text field where they type in the verbatim transcriptions. These datasets are then delivered to our curatorial staff and (unfortunately) are not connected to the verbatim transcriptions that we have uploaded onto BHL.
- Our transcribers have been adding html formatting tags around pieces of text in their verbatim transcriptions, but these are removed in the extracted versions of the transcriptions and replaced with the actual formatting. The transcriptions we have uploaded onto BHL have been exact page by page replicas (as close as we can get them) of the original text, with all of the authors’ formatting included. The only tags that are left in the text are those that identify different types of text, e.g. [caption], [page number], etc. or text added by the transcribers, such as implied dates, clarifications, current names for outdated ones, etc. See this example.
- How best to display transcriptions?
- We have been discussing this a great deal and this week one of my colleagues, Joe Coleman (who used to work with BHL-Au), came up with a suggestion that I think may work better than putting transcriptions in the OCR field (and one I can’t believe I didn’t think of myself!).
- We have uploaded our transcriptions onto BHL as subsequent volumes of the original title (see thisexample). However, my ideal option for displaying them is to have the original and the transcription viewable side-by-side. Joe suggested that we simply create a version of each handwritten item that has alternate original and transcribed pages, so that you can then view each page of the original next to its equivalent transcribed page in the 2-page view on BHL. Being able to view/read the transcription next to the original would certainly be a nicer experience for the user, certainly preferable to just having a separate transcription (which, while interesting to read, is very boring to look at without the author’s handwriting, illustrations, photographs, feathers, leaves, smudges, etc.). I still think it would be worth uploading the original in its original form, but to upload a second “volume”, marked as the transcription, which has alternate original and transcribed pages.
- This option would solve all of my requirements for making transcriptions viewable and searchable, while at the same time preserving the authors’ formatting that we’ve included in our transcriptions (which I believe would be lost in the OCR field?). It also doesn’t require any changes to BHL or Macaw. I know we’ve pushed for the changes that you’ve outlined below, but if you think this option would work perhaps they’re not necessary?
- I look forward to hearing your comments and to being involved in further discussions on this topic.
- Kind regards,
- Nicole
- Nicole Kearney
- Coordinator | Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Digital & Emerging Technologies, Museum Victoria
- PO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001
- 61 3 8341 7779
- From: William Ulate [mailto:william.ulate@mobot.org]
- Sent: Wednesday, 14 October 2015 8:25 AM
- To: Mike Lichtenberg <mike.lichtenberg@mobot.org>; Kearney, Nicole <nkearney@museum.vic.gov.au>; Crowley, Bianca [CrowleyB@si.edu] <CrowleyB@si.edu>; Blase, Julia <BlaseJ@si.edu>; Richard, Joel M <RichardJM@si.edu>; deVeer, Joseph <jdeveer@oeb.harvard.edu>; Kalfatovic, Martin <KalfatovicM@si.edu>; Sheffield, Carolyn <SheffieldC@si.edu>; Trish Rose-Sandler <trish.rose-sandler@mobot.org>
- Subject: Transcriptions in BHL - Thoughts/Questions
- .
- Dear all,
- A group of people has started to discuss the topic of incorporating transcriptions in BHL with a Confernce Call last month that's summarized in the document attached. We had some recommendations and decisions our next steps was to have Mike look at the whole process and come up with questions for us. He's already delved into the materials but I would like to run the questions we have through this group so we can address other topics we need to cover further.
- I would like to take this opportunity to include some new colleagues to the group and have all read last time's minutes (document, Mike's suggestions below and come up with your available time for a meeting this week (indicating so in this doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/cmckrcqv9y373ay7 ) where we would go over Mike's questions (below). Your active participation is needed.
- Kind regards,
- William.
- From: Mike Lichtenberg
- Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 4:21 PM
- To: William Ulate
- Subject: Transcriptions in BHL - Thoughts/Questions
- .
- Here are my thoughts and questions about uploading and editing of page text.
- OVERVIEW
- General thoughts… what is being considered it really the administration of page text. Until now, we have generally used the term “OCR” to refer to the text files associated with each page. It may now be time to start thinking of those files as just “Text”. The source of that “text” might be OCR or Transcription. This has some UI and service implications… we have URLs of the form biodiversitylibrary.org/pageocr/XXXX (pagetext is probably better) and a tab in the book viewer named “View OCR” (“View Text” or just “Text” is probably better). There may be other references to “OCR” that I am forgetting.
- We have talked about adding two new kinds of functionality to the BHL administration site:
- 1. Text uploads for an entire book
- 2. Text editing for a single page
- Uploads
- For uploads, it is assumed that all of the text for a book is contained in a single file (following the precedent set by the FromThePage and DigiVol exports).
- The steps involved in an upload are:
- 1. Specify BHL item, file, and file format
- 2. Upload the text, which is placed into a temporary location
- 3. Review the text to ensure that pages and transcriptions are properly aligned
- 4. Approve or reject the import
- 5. If approved, text files are moved to their permanent location, replacing whatever files already exist
- The initial screen for the text upload feature might look something like this:
- The user would identify the BHL item for which to replace the text, specify the file from which to import the data, and select the format of the file (from a list of various pre-defined formats).
- During the upload, certain validations will be performed. If any fail, the admin user may not be allowed to approve the import. Validations include:
- · Verify that the file to be uploaded is in the correct format, and can be parsed.
- · Verify that the number of pages imported matches the number of pages in the book.
- Editing
- The steps involved in editing the text for a page are:
- 1. Search for and select a title
- 2. Select from a list one of the items associated with the title
- 3. Select from a list one of the item’s pages
- 4. Edit the text of the page, which will be displayed side-by-side with a image of the page
- 5. Save/Cancel the edit and return to the list of pages for the item
- QUESTIONS
- Do we want to define a file format for uploads? This would be a “BHL Custom” format for contributions not coming from the predefined tools (i.e. FromThePage, DigiVol, etc). Any contributions not from one of those tools would have to be put into this “BHL Custom” format prior to upload. Alternately, we could just plan on enhancing the upload functionality as necessary.
- What logs/history related to uploads should be maintained? Does there need to be a way to view history on the admin site? If we do keep logs/history, how will it integrate with whatever version control system is eventually adopted for the text files?
- Do we need to keep track of the current source of the text for each page (i.e. Internet Archive OCR, user edit, FromThePage transcription, Digivol transcriptions, Game output, and so on)?
- Should uploads be allowed if pages are missing?
- Should we allow admin users to realign text files with pages after upload (before final approval of the upload)? This is somewhat related to the previous question about missing pages.
- Should we consider a third type of functionality… that is, allowing users to request that OCR be (re)imported from Internet Archive? Such an import would overwrite whatever files currently exist. This already mostly exists in a “secret” interface that I use when fixing books affected by page inserts/deletes at Internet Archive.
- Besides the validations of imported files listed above, what other validations can/should be performed?
- Should the text editing feature be integrated into the Paginator, or be implemented as a stand-alone admin tool?
- How sophisticated should the OCR/Transcription editor be? Is a simple text edit box good enough (considering that page text should not include any, or very limited, markup)?
- In the text editor, how much manipulation (zooming/scrolling) of the page image should be possible?
Skype call for Discussing Inclusion of Transcriptions into BHL
From: William Ulate
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 9:35 AM
To: Mike Lichtenberg; Kalfatovic, Martin; Sheffield, Carolyn; Blase, Julia; Trish Rose-Sandler; deVeer, Joseph
Subject: Skype call for Discussing Inclusion of Transcriptions into BHL
When: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 2:00 PM-3:00 PM.
Where: Skype call from mobot.cbi
Hi all,
We would like to invite you to a call on September 8th at 2pm Central time to discuss "How to include Transcriptions into BHL". There are several projects generating text for BHL that improves the OCR and we would like to talk about the best way to integrate these texts into the BHL Corpus.
The draft Agenda of the meeting includes both of the following topics:
- There are currently several initiatives producing transcriptions what to do with current existing transcriptions and
- How to proceed in the future with new transcriptions?
I will try to establish the Skype call from the account of MOBOT's Center for Biodiversity Informatics (mobot.cbi).
Thank you!
William.
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Meeting Notes (Sept.8th 2015)
Transcriptions Meeting - Sept 8th 2015.docx
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