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HD-50927-10Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up GrantsGeorge Mason UniversityCrowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool7/1/2010 - 6/30/2011$49,215.00SharonM.Leon   George Mason UniversityFairfaxVA22030-4444USA2010Media StudiesDigital Humanities Start-Up GrantsDigital Humanities492150492150

The development of an open source tool that would allow scholars to contribute document transcriptions and research notes to digital archival projects, using the Papers of the War Department as a test case.

The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University seeks to build an open source tool to enable researchers to contribute document transcriptions and research notes to digital archival projects, thus harnessing the power of the community of users to improve the discoverability and usefulness of the archive. Digital archives and documentary projects need a viable solution that lowers both the cost and the investment of staff time involved with transcribing of large numbers of historical documents. There will be significant benefits for both the editorial staff and for interested users, whether they are scholarly researchers, students and teachers, or members of the general public. This grant seeks to address these long-term resource challenges facing many digital documentary editing projects. We will use the Papers of the War Department digital archive as a test case.