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Recent Posts from FromThePage Privacy And Copyright Considerations Using GPT Models Last week we hosted a webinar with Jessica Roberson and Jeremiah Colonna-Romano from the University of Alabama on how they were experimenting with OpenAI’s GPT models for their archival metadata workflows. In the Q&A Jessica and Jeremiah were asked: Did you think of any privacy or copyright considerations when you were putting this content into […] Connection Makes Quality I recently saw a presentation by Dick Kasperowski and Olof Karsvall about research they’d done on The Detective Section, a crowdsourcing project at the Swedish National Archives. Their findings contradicted some of the conventional wisdom that volunteers introduce bias into results when they bring their own subject-matter expertise to citizen science tasks, and that made […] How LLMs Work & A Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox I’ve got two useful AI tidbits for you this month: The first is the best explanation of how large language models work. This is a pretty opaque topic that few attempt to understand, but I think it’s important to grasp – even in metaphor – how systems like ChatGPT work. When you understand how they […] AI-Assist in FromThePage: Using HTR in People-Centered Transcription Last month, Ben and Sara Brumfield hosted a webinar to introduce the new AI-assist feature: Handwritten Text Recognition. The presentation, linked below in a video and embedded as slides, presents a walkthrough of the new HTR feature. This was one of FromThePage’s most-attended webinars, and it was exciting to have so many people join. You […] Guiding Transcribers: Addressing Racist Material in Crowdsourced Archival Projects In honor of Black History Month, we asked some of the institutions who run projects uncovering the names and histories of African Americans on FromThePage the following question, "What do you tell volunteers who encounter offensive or racist material in your projects?" Sonya Coleman at Library of Virginia summed it up with a meme: From https://twitter.com/libshipwreck/status/1351308129062051845 […] An Interview with Dr. Aaron Taylor of Native Bound Unbound Dr. Aaron Taylor of Native Bound Unbound kindly took the time to answer questions and discuss their projects and experience using the platform with Sara Brumfield of FromThePage. Aaron Taylor is the deputy director of Native Bound Unbound. First, tell us about your documents. Native Bound Unbound is gathering a wide variety of documents, all […] Primary Sidebar Search the site ... What’s Trending on The FromThePage Blog An Interview with Dr. Camille Westmont of Sewanee:… An Interview with Rebecca Dillmeier of the United… Project Profile: Stanford University Archives Project Profile: Indiana Archives and Records… An Interview with Keith Mitchell of The National… How Do I Read Old Handwriting? Recent Client Interviews An Interview with Candice Cloud of Stephen F. Austin State University An Interview with Shanna Raines of the Greenville County Library System An Interview with Jodi Hoover of Digital Maryland An Interview with Michael Lapides of the New Bedford Whaling Museum An Interview with NC State University Libraries Read More ai artificial intelligence crowdsourcing features fromthepage projects handwriting history iiif indexing Indianapolis Indianapolis Children’s Museum interview Jennifer Noffze machine learning metadata ocr paleography podcast racism Ryan White spreadsheet transcription transcription transcription software Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions || Contact Us Copyright © 2024 ·...