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<\/a>Next, you’ll want to search for a particular file, or browse by item or collection. The search function is a bit limited at the time. It only searches for text in the titles, tags, and existing descriptions. It doesn’t search for already transcribed text.<\/p>\n Once you find an item to transcribe, click on the image or title to go to that item’s page. On that page, near the bottom, you will see a link to transcribe the item. Go ahead and click on that.<\/p>\n Now you are on the transcription page. Next you will need to log in. (If you would like to help transcribe and\/or translate, send me an email, or comment on this post, and I can set you up with an account. And thank you in advance!)<\/p>\n Once logged in, the page will be a little bit different.<\/p>\n Find the ‘edit’ link to start transcribing the image.<\/p>\n Notice the tools available for the image. (Move the mouse cursor over the image if you do not see them at first.)<\/p>\n Blue:<\/span> You can zoom in and move the image around to get a better view of the text.<\/p>\n Red:<\/span> Enter the transcribed text in the box. When done, click the ‘Edit transcription’ button.<\/p>\n Green:<\/span> Only transcribed text should go in the transcription box, use the discussion page to enter comments about the item and ask questions.<\/p>\n Yellow:<\/span> When you are done transcribing, and\u00a0 have clicked the ‘Edit transcription’ button, you can log out.<\/p>\n There is more to transcribing that just typing out what you see. Sometimes it is hard to even know what you are looking at. Here are some guidelines and policies for transcribing the documents here.<\/p>\n Policy (taken from the US National Archives and Records Administration website)<\/p>\n Below is a handy list of links to help with transcribing German handwriting and transcribing in general<\/p>\n NARA FAQ: http:\/\/transcribe.archives.gov\/faq<\/a><\/p>\n NARA Tips for Transcribing: http:\/\/transcribe.archives.gov\/tips<\/a><\/p>\n Tips for reading old handwriting: http:\/\/www.genealogy.com\/76_reading.html<\/a><\/p>\n German Script Tutorial from BYU: http:\/\/script.byu.edu\/german\/en\/welcome.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n Three part lesson on reading German handwritten records, from Familysearch.org:<\/p>\n Reading Blackletters (Gothic German), just for fun, or in case:<\/p>\n Part of my dissertation methodology is to try to use collaboration to provide an increase in usable sources. To accomplish this, I have set up the Omeka archive with the wonderful Scripto tool. This tool marries an Omeka install with a MediaWiki install to provide a nice way to be able to view images in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[40,43,32,44],"tags":[24,50,36,46,47,23,48,49],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic","category-history","category-methodology","category-school-work","tag-archives","tag-collaboration","tag-images","tag-omeka","tag-scripto","tag-sources","tag-transcribing","tag-translating"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/transcribing.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nazitunnels.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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