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12017-04-09T13:55:48-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a720040image_header2019-02-11T18:00:46-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aWelcome to Digital Paxton Transcriptions. Given the scope of materials in Digital Paxton, we invite our visitors to contribute transcriptions using our FromThePage. We are currently soliciting transcriptions of our Friendly Association manuscripts. You may contribute as many or as few transcriptions as you wish--you may even transcribe as a guest.
Given that our transcription conventions differ slightly from those of FromThePage, we encourage visitors to familiarize themselves with our best practices.
To support the effort, Kate Johnson, Marie Pellissier, and Kelly Schmidt, graduate students at Loyola University Chicago, have collected some transcription best practices and created a short guide to using FromThePage. You may access both reference guides by following the path listed below Contents.
At present, about half of the Paxton corpus has been transcribed. Additional transcriptions, accessible as fully-searchable annotations, will be added on a regular basis and announced via social media. Visit Transcribed Records for a complete listing of materials.
If you're an educator and you would like to integrate a transcriptions assignment into your classroom, please connect with the editor using the Contact page.
12017-04-13T04:10:34-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aTranscription Best Practices4Kate Johnson, Marie Pellissier, and Kelly Schmidtimage_header2017-04-13T10:42:11-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
1media/ftp2.jpg2017-04-13T04:53:06-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aUsing FromThePage8Kate Johnson, Marie Pellissier, and Kelly Schmidtimage_header2017-04-13T10:45:11-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a