The challenge to and for researchers: Bill Simpich

[Michael Clark]

On 8/13/2019 at 7:29 PM, Michael Clark said:

I was considering setting up a site for collaboration on making documents readable, searchable and copyable. Emma Best directed me to this site, which may serve that purpose.

https://pursuanceproject.org/

 

Here is Emma’s Patreon site.

 

https://www.patreon.com/EmmaBest/overview

 

 

I have set up a site that I intend to use, in part, for document transcription, sharing, analysis and perhaps articles. There is nothing to it yet. One thing I am using is Microsoft Office 365 for some of the features, including SharePoint. I think O365 Flow will be useful for tracking the processing and progress of document identification, acquisition, transcription and peer review.

Of course, as always, I have in mind some great collaborative effort that will suddenly fall from the heavens, and I am sure I will be disappointed. But, I always feel better for having tried even when I am sure I will fail.

That said,  I posted the following on another thread. I’ll repost here in case anyone will share the form blanks that I am requesting:

“I would like a set of blank forms from the CIA and FBI which we commonly see in the documents release. I’ll make my own if I can’t find them. If someone would share them it would be a big time saver because I will have to figure out how to create them from scratch.

I need these because there are numerous documents that I want to transcribe and I have come to the conclusion that the best way to do it is in the original format with original form types and headers.”

 

Edited September 28, 2019 by Michael Clark

[Michael Clark]

21 minutes ago, Michael Clark said:

I have set up a site that I intend to use, in part, for document transcription, sharing, ....

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.... original format with original form types and headers.”

 

Aside from the above-stated purpose of the site will be to foment interest in historical documents while simultaneously getting the job done. One goal I have in mind is that targeted documents can be signed-out, transcribed, submitted for peer review and then published. To add inertia to the initiative I am thinking of enlisting professors to give credit to students who do the transcriptions and also do peer reviews as the document flows towards publication on the site. These professors would be expected to do some portion of the reviews for their students, signing-off on all, if only throughly reading a percentage, of them.

This is kind of turning into a nascent mission statement.

Interested parties can join on varied levels, starting with basic communication and trial runs. I will also be looking for those who know or want to learn how to use the relevant Office 365 products. A Guest user can be added to the Office 365 portal for free, and I have yet to learn the full length and breadth of the capabilities of Guest users. Email, OneDrive, SharePoint, and other apps can be part of a subscription starting at $4 a month; but this getting ahaead of the effort at this point as I have no budget and am weary of the complications involved with subscription fees.

To be sure, I am not soliciting any members for any paid collaboration at this time. I am posting for the purpose of getting any feedback and a sense of interest in the project.

Here are some O365 subscriptions for comparison:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-service-description

https://products.office.com/en-us/compare-all-microsoft-office-products?activetab=tab:primaryr2