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Transcription software

2012-08-21T07:57:17Z

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'''Transcription software'''

'''Editorial history'''

19/08/12: CSG, created page
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==Suggested links==

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==Marinelives-Transcript==

We are currently testing the opensource transcription software Scripto, which Giovanni has implemented within Wordpress.

Your can access this at: http://www.marinelives-transcript.org

We have uploaded a limited number of digital images to the platform, which we will experiment with at Monday's kickoff meeting and afternoon training session
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''2012-08-20 18:53:04'' [[nbsp]] Had a go with this in the last half an hour or so. I felt it was easy to use and seemed a nice simple way of doing things. Zooming in/out and moving the document around all very easy etc. This is, of course, from the point of view of transcribers. I'm sure Colin will tell me more about how it works from a facilitator point of view when we talk on Tuesday. Can everyone including associates see everyone else's transcriptions? Discussion page is good too. I assume we would distribute documents according to expertise (eg if docs in foreign languages or Latin throughout give them to those with required expertise).

I assume also where it says 'changed by' and says either '205.178.145.68' or '205.178.145.71' etc or 'editor' this will be replaced with personalised names so that we can see who is doing what in each transcription?

I also wondered if, when transcribing a document, it would be useful to have the terms and dictionaries links on the main page down the side as links which, when clicked on, automatically opened in a new window so as to avoid interrupting transcription in the tab you're using.

That's all my thoughts for now! - [[Users/williamtullett|Users/williamtullett]]
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''2012-08-21 08:57:16'' [[nbsp]] I've just had a look at the website, looks wonderful and very useful, esp. the zooming in and out tool. --[[Users/sarahlaseke|Users/sarahlaseke]]

Project Goals

2012-08-14T12:01:05Z

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'''Project Goals'''

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'''Purpose of this page'''

This page sets out the primary goals of the project. It also suggests standards by which we should measure our performance against these goals and seeks a discussion of these proposed standards and measurement processes with the project team
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==Suggested links==

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==Project Goals==
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===What have we said?===

'''Our website:''' "MarineLives is an innovative academic project for the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts, which were originated in the High Court of Admiralty, London, 1650-1669. The end product will be a publicly and freely available online academic edition."
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===Two primary goals===

* '''Content:''' Delivery of a public and freely available online academic edition (within reasonable time)

* '''Process:''' Develop and demonstrate effective innovative approach to collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary documents
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==Suggested standards==
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===Content===

* Quality of textual output

* Quantity of textual output
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===Process===

* Creativeness, effectiveness and efficiency of project process
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===Energy===

* Unanticipated benefits

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==Possible measurement==
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===Content===

* Nominate named expert individuals in advance, not directly involved in the project, to assess the quality of the content?

- Who?

* Benchmark the quality and quantity of the content against other reference content; the reference content to be agreed in advance?

- What content? How define quality?

* Willingness of academics to formally cite content from MarineLives project?

* Self-evaluation by team members of quality of content?

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===Process===

* Creativeness:

- Evaluation by named expert individuals of project processes?
- Self-evaluation by team members of creativity of project processes?

* Effectiveness:

- Deliver desired content goals?
- Objective feedback solicited from team members following conclusion of the project regarding the project experience?

* Efficiency:

- Output relative to input costs (total monetary costs; and money equivalent of volunteer time and other resources voluntarily made available to the project)?
- Extent to which rework is avoided in the project?

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===Energy===

* Undergraduate dissertation topics influenced by involvement of undergraduate project associates in MarineLives?

* Journals article submitted and approved making reference to the MarineLives project?

* Year thirteen student admissions to university assisted by involvement of school students in MarineLives?

* Potential funders (individuals and/or companies and/or institutions) approach core team following project seeking to explore possible funding of a project extension or project spinoff?

* Desire of project participants to work together again?
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==Questions to project team==

* Should we set any targets before we start the project, other than "achieving our goals"

* If we decide we want to set targets, should they be targets at the level of the total project, or at the level of the facilitator supported teams, or at an individual level?

* Should we set ourselves an initial transcription target and an "up to speed" transcription target to (a) help plan the amount of volunteer resource we need and (b) to help evaluate the effectiveness of our training processes? My experience of good operational or business processes is that it helps to think in some detail about them, but that that doesn't mean that you use this thinking or benchmarks to "control" or "manage" a project. Far from it. I find that good productivity comes from soft factors like clear goals, good training, and a fun experience with plenty of communication, and that these sustained motivation and application

* How should we expect productivity and behaviours of individuals and teams to change over fourteen week project?

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''2012-08-13 11:22:24'' [[nbsp]] Stuart, do you have data from your AHRC crowdsourcing literature review or May workship which will help us think about our productivity targets and productivity variance between indviduals, teams, and over time? What benchmark projects would you suggest we think about? --[[Users/ColinGreenstreet|Users/ColinGreenstreet]]
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''2012-08-13 20:49:13'' [[nbsp]] I just read today's email conversation on productivity and I believe that the productivity will vary from person to person (and therefore from team to team). I, for example, am unable to estimate how busy I will be each week (I don't know about my deadlines, schedules etc yet) & I think that other student will be in a similar situation.
Therefore, I think it is probably the best idea to try and set realistic "minimum goals" per team per week, which will enable the team to sufficiently participate in the transcriptions without creating conflicting deadlines or priorities.

I'm looking forward to hearing other people's thoughts, suggestions.. --[[Users/sarahlaseke|Users/sarahlaseke]]
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''2012-08-14 12:19:59'' [[nbsp]] I have rewritten the questions to the project team about targets. Comments and concrete suggestions appreciated, especially if you can draw on your personal experience of transcription, or on working on other team based projects, whether academic, voluntary, or business based --[[Users/ColinGreenstreet|Users/ColinGreenstreet]]
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''2012-08-14 13:01:04'' [[nbsp]] *I think weekly facilitator supported team targets would be useful: e.g. every Friday each team sets goals for the next week, taking into account upcoming conflicting priorities of each team member (holiday, deadlines), so they can split the work accordingly. I am currently involved in a book move at the V&A. In a group of 4 we are responsible for moving the library's special collections to new cupboards. Each week we take into account who is there and who isn't and plan our next steps. We usually only work on it one morning per week so every week we write up a report on the process and discuss how much we will be able to do in the following week (e.g. we all have no other duties on day X so we can meet then and get more done because on our usual day one person is on annual leave).

*I think productivity and behaviours of individuals WILL change over the fourteen weeks, it could even be weekly, so setting weekly goals will help teams to take these changes into account --[[Users/sarahlaseke|Users/sarahlaseke]]

Project Goals

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Forum

2012-08-11T09:16:41Z

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''2012-08-11 06:24:08'' [[nbsp]] Sarah, William, and Jill: This forum page may be redundant. I am thinking that each advisor should have a page like Colin's page, and then each team, as run by we the facilitators, should have a team page, named after whatever names the teams, when formed, choose for themselves. Team pages would be the natural areas for individuals on a team to post problems or observations for other members of their teams, and the advisors pages would be logical places to post more technical points or questions, e.g. palaeography (Charlene, as a last resort, if the team themselves and their facilitator cannot resolve an issue, or it is more of an editorial or policy issue; technical (Stuart, or perhaps a combined page for Stuart and Givovanni); marine (Margaret or Richard, or again perhaps a combined page for Margaret and Richard)? --[[Users/ColinGreenstreet|Users/ColinGreenstreet]]
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''2012-08-11 10:16:41'' [[nbsp]] That's fine! --[[Users/sarahlaseke|Users/sarahlaseke]]

Forum

2012-08-11T09:16:40Z

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''2012-08-11 06:24:08'' [[nbsp]] Sarah, William, and Jill: This forum page may be redundant. I am thinking that each advisor should have a page like Colin's page, and then each team, as run by we the facilitators, should have a team page, named after whatever names the teams, when formed, choose for themselves. Team pages would be the natural areas for individuals on a team to post problems or observations for other members of their teams, and the advisors pages would be logical places to post more technical points or questions, e.g. palaeography (Charlene, as a last resort, if the team themselves and their facilitator cannot resolve an issue, or it is more of an editorial or policy issue; technical (Stuart, or perhaps a combined page for Stuart and Givovanni); marine (Margaret or Richard, or again perhaps a combined page for Margaret and Richard)? --[[Users/ColinGreenstreet|Users/ColinGreenstreet]]
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''2012-08-11 10:16:39'' [[nbsp]] That's fine! --[[Users/sarahlaseke|Users/sarahlaseke]]

Users/sarahlaseke

2012-08-10T20:00:33Z

Sarahlaseke:

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I am a 25 year old aspiring medievalist and was born in Cologne, Germany. I studied at the University of Groningen (BA English Language & Literature, minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies) and moved to Guildford in 2010. In October 2012 I will start studying for a MSt in Medieval English Literature at the University of Oxford. My main research interests are Medieval Romance, (national) identity, space & place, geography.

Editors' Page

2012-08-10T16:05:58Z

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'''Editors' Page'''

'''Editorial history'''

08/08/12, CSG: Created page
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==Draft Project Manual Plan==
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===Project Plan: Version One: August 5th 2012===

(1) Project goals, incl. possible conference in January

(2) Project schedule
(2.1) News page - to update with results of meetings and so on.
(2.2) Schedule week by week (using the one Colin sent to the new member yesterday as it is up to date)
- Include info about kick off meeting here/perhaps an agenda of things to be discussed

(3) Team structure & vacancies (how many facilitators and associates are we still looking for)

(4) Short team bios, concentrating on real demonstrated skills of individuals (e.g. Latin, German, Italian reading ability; SW skills; Palaeography...) Include contact email address and possibly phone numbers for those mentioned (even Skype? Although not sure about that one). (We could email around and ask for a short bio + contact details from each person with a maximum word limit)
Split into advisors, facilitators, associates.

(5) Training

(5.1)- Palaeography of HCA legal records
(5.1.1) - Palaeography general resources + links (some on wiki, some extra I've found)
(5.1.2) - Terms and dictionaries of relevant words. (I think we can take most of this from Colin's wiki subject to his approval?
(5.1.2.1) Legal
(5.1.2.2) Geographical/Alphabet of places
(5.1.2.3) Marine
(5.1.2.4) Alphabet of Ships
(5.1.3) - Challenges + postings go here. (Individual pages for each one)
(5.1.4) - List of broad themes (like those in the challenges and on Colin's wiki) to look out for in initial transcription so people can mark them briefly.
(5.1.5) Links to useful articles/secondary material online for those who don't necessarily have 17thC marine life as the main focus of their research.(Colin/Richard to provide links perhaps? Although I don't mind hunting things down myself!)

(5.2) - Creating a wiki page and editing a wiki page
(5.2.1) - Creating a wiki page
(5.2.2) - Editing a wiki page
(5.2.2.1) - Inserting and editing text
(5.2.2.2) - Cropping and inserting images

(6) Possibly a forum, people may just email each other anyway at first but as the project grows I think it would certainly be something to think about. Or we could have a page with a box where associates could post messages that would then go to facilitators or something akin to that. A suggestion box might be useful as well?
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===Project Plan: Version One: Colin's Comments: August 5th 2012===

Feedback on your project plans

2.1 News page - good idea (I think that can also be set up as an RSS feed, so if project team members subscribe that teh nerws page gets pushed to their email)

2.2 Project schedule. Should be regularly updated. Suggest we have a text version, with dot points on key actions and key targeted achievements (essentially interim process goals), and also a very simpla gantt chart (can be done in Excel, and easily updated - I'll send you an example from one of my Concordas consulting projects)

Suggest a specific page about kickoff meeting, including a preliminary agenda, with a comments box at the bottom, and ask people to comment on that page about the agenda with improvement ideas. This will help encourage people to start using the project wiki regularly. Learn about inserting comment boxes in wiki by going to:

Help with Editing (you see help with editing at the bottom of every Wikispot wiki page when you are in wiki edit mode)

Specifically see: http://wikispot.org/Comments

(3) Team structure, including names and roles , yes, and vacacies - very good idea

Suggest don't use a pyramid chart (suggesting rigid reporting hierachy), but instead concentric circle chart, with me and advisors and facilitators in a middle ring, with the ring boundary a dotted line not a heavy line, then associates in next concentric ring, then a final ring (all separated by dotted lines) showing academics, school students and teachers, and public historians. If you draw it clevely, you position the facilitators in the inner ring with "their" associates near them in the next ring, then draw a venn diagram like oval, also with dotted line to embrace a named facilitator and "their" associates. I bet you Patrizia (who likes this sort of thing) or Giovanni Colavizza (our most expert IT web coding guy) could qrite some HTML code, so that you click on a name on the diagram and it goes to the short bio/skills description. But this is nice to have only, and not exactly a priority

(4) Team bios. May want to put on one page, and do alphabetically. You can create links at the top of a page from a name, which will then take you to the correct bio on that page

(5.1.1) Palaeography. Yes, but we need to get more specific. What are the sort of palaeographical problems we will have with HCA documents. e.g. punctuation, capitalisation, distinguishing vowels. Take a look at: Policy issues in the Transcription page under Admiralty court cases in bron.wikispot.org

(5.1.2) Welcome to use my draft dictionaries. I think they can probably be extended prior to 3rd Sep., and we should get them into the new project wiki, and also all my HCA content, then encourage everyone to search the HCA content and play with adding stuff to these dictionaries. Get's people trained in wiki use without them realising. Content can simply be copied in edit mode from one wiki to another.

See [[Commodities|Commodities]]
See [[Geography|Geography]]
See [[Shipping terminology|Shipping terminology]]

5.1.3-1.15 I like all of these

5.2 Like 5.2.1 and 5.2.3, but think you need 5.2.3 = searching the wiki. Probably enough simply to copy from my wiki into new project wiki the page: Searching the wiki

6. Forum page is good on wiki. Someone should host that forum page and activley manage it. Let's get as much shared on the forum as possible, rather than emails, since so much good stuff in email gets lost. Topics on a forum can be reorganised very easily by any contrinutor in edit mode, and all associates, facilitators and advisors should have edit privileges

I look forward to seeing a revised draft once you have incorporated relevant feedback from associates (?and advisors if possible)

On palaeography I will let you know as soon as I have spoken with Charlene Eske, since I think she will have good thoughts on palaeography training. Also Jo Pugh at TNA can put you in touch with TNA palaorgaphy expert, who I am hoping will come to our kickoff, and perhaps co-run a training session with a team member, using HCA examples
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===William Tullett suggestions, August 7th 2012===

(In email to Colin, cc Sarah)

Dear Colin,

Thank you for the details regarding all of the individuals on the project. I haven't had any replies from the associates, all of whom we have emailed asking about their ideas on training provision on the wiki but hopefully we will get some input soon as it's only been a few days.

I think, although I have not asked Sarah on this yet, that the project wiki and the wiki for the input of transcribed content should be separate but perhaps have them linked by a tab on each of them so it's easy to get between them. Me and Sarah have yet to produce a more detailed plan but below are some thoughts.

A few things I wanted to ask:

1) Have you set up the project training wiki and therefore would you be able to provide I and Sarah with the details for it? Sarah and I have talked about the possibility of using Wordpress for the project training site, with which Sarah has experience and the possibility of using Scripto for transcription. Do you have any opinions on this and is the preferred option to use a wiki?

2) In terms of copy for the wiki could you provide a blurb for the project goals page? I was going to cobble together a project goals section from the 'Project high level description' you sent me on the 14th July and the various call for papers/history today article but I felt perhaps it would be better for you to prepare this as it is, of course, your entrepreneurial spirit which started and continues to feed the project and I wouldn't want to put words in your mouth about the end goals!

I will try and put together a list of useful secondary resources for the training pages but if you have suggestions that would be great. I wonder what, since I should imagine the training wiki would be privately accessed by password (?) the policy on putting up some pdfs of journal articles would be. Obviously if the wiki were public I understand this would not be allowed. Perhaps links to wikipedia pages would suffice but this is entirely at your discretion and is something I will ask associates about.

3) In terms of schedule me and Sarah currently have this from an earlier email

"August 1st to August 31st

* Train facilitators online
* Work with facilitators to prepare online training material for associates
* Face-to face one day meeting at TNA (August 20th) to look and feel the documents we will be working on, to meet TNA staff, and to practice technical and palaeographical skills. This meeting to consist of project facilitators & project experts
* Project leaders & facilitators to create a digital backbone for the project, with all images checked for quality and readability, and meta data created and input into wiki

September 3rd to December 14th

* Allocation of facilitators to project associates
* Training of project associates directed and supported by facilitators
* Kick off transcription (plus linkage and enrichment) work
* Monthly on line review conferences using e-conferencing"

Is this detailed enough or do you feel that this could be further supplemented?

In addition do we yet have an agenda for the kick off meeting? I currently have this from emails:

"'I'm thinking a morning (9.00 a.m.-12.30 p.m.) plus lunch (12.30-13.30) together might be ideal. For facilitators who are interested we might put a couple of the volumes of the HCA records, including the records we are going to work on, in the conference room, or in a side room, which we could then examine after lunch, and I might run a palaeography teach-in from 14.00 through to 16.00 for any of the facilitators who are interested (if TNA has a palaeography expert who could join us all the better)."

I would suggest key parts of the day to be:
Establishing and confirming end goals of the project.

Running through the schedule and establishing/confirming targets.

Perhaps going through the training wiki and some examples using a projector so we can discuss pros and cons.

Possibly dividing up associates amongst facilitators.

Some time spent addressing Palaeography policy. (I wonder whether this is something we need to have quite an in depth conversation about and that the meeting at TNA might be a good forum for it)

Some hands on time with the HCA records and some palaeography teaching. This could be linked to the above.

Simply getting to know each other!

What is your current position on the agenda for that meeting?

I must admit in IT terms I am not particularly proficient but I have spent a little bit of time today looking at how to set up an RSS feed, a calendar which we could put on the wiki which we could all edit and a forum. I'm still a bit mystified but I should imagine this will be easier once I have access to the wiki so that I can get working on it and trying things.

I completely agree re: the concentric circle style with links for displaying the team structure, I will send an email to Giovanni Colavizza and Patrizia to talk to them about the code for this.

In terms of wiki training I think this will be pretty easy to copy and paste from the descriptions you've provided in your wiki and possibly these explanations here: http://wikispot.org/Help_with_Editing .
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==Advisors comments==

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''2012-08-09 07:01:45'' [[nbsp]] I have circulated a short email this morning to the MarineLives project advisors asking for their comments on the skeleton project manual with substantive suggestions. I have requested that their comments should be posted to the Editors' Page, rather than circulated by email. --[[Users/ColinGreenstreet|Users/ColinGreenstreet]]
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''2012-08-09 15:08:59'' [[nbsp]] Hello Everyone,

At present I am in the process of drawing up a draft of the transcription conventions that the project might consider adopting. The main issue I am having at this point is that I am still waiting for interlibrary loan to get hold of a copy of Dr. Murphy's book.

Regarding the training seminar at TNA, if there is a paleography expert there, it would be a good thing to consult with him/her beforehand and perhaps go over the transcription conventions that you will be teaching. I'm assuming that participants will have images of HCA documents to work with and will be able to get some practice that way. Would it be possible to draw up a sample alphabet and abbreviations/contractions based on images of letter forms found in the documents themselves? Would it also be possible to record parts of the training seminar and post it to the website for those who are not able to participate on the 20th? All three of the paleography tutorial links already posted to the website will be a huge help once things get started. Just some thoughts...

Charlene --[[Users/charleneeska|Users/charleneeska]]
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''2012-08-09 16:57:22'' [[nbsp]] In answer to Charlene's points and making a couple of my own:

(1) Jo Pugh is making contact with TNA palaeography experts and is checking who might be available. Jo is currently on holiday, but back in the office at Kew on Tuesday, 14th August. I will contact him on the Tuesday to get the name of the suggested palaeographer at TNA, and then I suggest that Charlene and I, together with William and Sarah have a web chat about how to run the palaography session on 20th August, and also in the w/c 3rd September, when we kickoff with project associates.

(2) I just spent half the day with a year thirteen student, [[Colin%27s Page#head-a568e2b0c6f34ac45ed32e9cb21779b66d1c68b7|Daniel Richards]], at the TNA in Kew, showing him HCA documents from 1656-1678, and it reminded me that we will need to be efficient in taking people, some of them who have never sat down an read an original document, and getting them to a decent level of confidence and productivity. By the way Daniel tells me that he wants to join the team, so (when he confirms officially), we have a second school involved, the well known comprehensive school, the London Oratory, in West London.

(3) We can easily provide digital images of relevant documents, and I was proposing that we are very concentrated on HCA documents, and the type of scripts and language that we will all be encountering over the next fourteen weeks. No need to learn Elizabethan or early Jacobean scripts. I think it is a good idea to do close ups of specific letters and the variance you can see around them. I have probably five hundred digital images of HCA documents already on my laptop, and will start to go through a few for different script types and to experiment with enlarging letters and words. I'll post some examples to the palaography section of this wiki, so that people can comment on the effectiveness of this approach.

(4) We can certainly video or otherwise record parts of the palaeography session, and post the recording, probably best done as short thematic clips, to the wiki or website (need to check technical side for this, but Giovanni Colavizza can help us here. I'll add Giovanni to the current users of the wiki) --[[Users/ColinGreenstreet|Users/ColinGreenstreet]]
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''2012-08-10 02:37:06'' [[nbsp]] I am learning my way around the wiki, so inadvertently added my report on soliciting volunteers to [[Colin's page|Colin's page]]. Let me know if I should change that! Otherwise, I'm impressed by what I've read so far. -- Margaret --[[Users/margaretschotte|Users/margaretschotte]]
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''2012-08-10 11:25:24'' [[nbsp]] Margaret, I found it very useful that you added your comments directly to the volunteer news page, and I have responded to you at the same location, as well as adding a new page with model emails which you can use (suitably modified), or simply take as a starting point. I have also made available a downloadable PDF of the MarineLives History Today article, which is due to be published on 23rd August in hard copy, with the web edition of the magazine carrying the article roughly a week earlier (Colin)
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''2012-08-10 12:41:40'' [[nbsp]] I have added Jill Wilcox to the admiited users of this project manual. Jill has joined William Tullett, Sarah Laseke, and me, as a project facilitator. I have also added Giovanni Colavizza, who is based in Friuli, Italy. Giovanni has joined as as our resident IT guru, and will work closely with me and Dr Stuart Dunn, as prepare our recommendations to the project team as to the technical solution(s) to our various needs. Giovanni is studying for his MA at Venice and Padua in archival studies, with a digital humanities flavour, and has a very strong background in databases and coding. --[[Users/ColinGreenstreet|Users/ColinGreenstreet]]
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''2012-08-10 17:04:21'' [[nbsp]] We have a project team of nearly twenty, but I have only met three of you - Richard, Stuart and Jo. No more anonimity. Click here and you get to meet me and my dog. Users/ColinGreenstreet.

Why don't you share with us what makes you tick? --[[Users/ColinGreenstreet|Users/ColinGreenstreet]]
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''2012-08-10 17:05:58'' [[nbsp]] Is everyone allowed to creat his/her own page? How/where do I add one? --[[Users/sarahlaseke|Users/sarahlaseke]]

Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk

2012-08-10T13:23:58Z

Sarahlaseke:

I've just posted our Call for Volunteers on a CfP Website: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/. It usually takes a while for it to appear online (SL)

10/08/12: 12:42: Sarah, that's a great idea. Which version of the call for volunteers did you go with? The short form or the longer version? I posted one of the versions (can't remember which now) about ten days back to the Cromwell Society in UK, who have circulated it via their email list (Colin)

10/08/2012 12:50 I posted the short one. I selected different categories to reach more people (e.g. interdisciplinary, renaissance, ecocriticism)

10/08/2012 12:54 SL: I think we should use Twitter to tweet short calls for volunteers. Could the facilitators get access to the Twitter account? I could, for example, search for people with "early modern" in their description and follow them. If we got more followers, we could reach a much wider audience and attract more attention (I'm occasionally running @mediaevum, which has 682 followers)

I've just seen that Birkbeck Early Modernists put our Call up on their blog: http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk/2012/08/08/marinelives-call-for-project-volunteers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marinelives-call-for-project-volunteers&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

10/08/12 13:05: Good idea Sarah regarding Twitter. I will give the facilitators access to the Twitter account. I'm sending you the access details. The target now is to get more committed project associates by September 3rd, and I would like decent palaeographers. They don't have to be great, but we already have five year thirteens (four Westminster school students plus one London Oratory student (TBC) starting palaeography from scratch. That being said we have a number of experienced palaeographers amongst associates who have signed up, including Gordon o'Sullivan and Karen Gunnell, a part time archivist at the National maritime Museum (TBC) (Colin)

10/08/12 13:12 : Good to see our call for volunteers up on the Birkbeck Early Modernists blog. Do you know who the Karen is who posted it? Did she publicise it on Twitter, and if so, could you Sarah perhaps get in touch with her and follow up. Perhaps she herself might be interested in the project. Birkbeck will probably have a good number of mature students, who may well have palaeographical skills (Colin)

10/08/12 13:18: I have answered my own question regarding the publicising of the posting on the Birkbeck early Modernists blog - it has been publicised by the H-Albion network (part of H-Net), with a direct link to the Birkbeck blog. Separately Sharon Howard has picked up on the call for volunteers, and republished it on her own blog. I still wonder who Karen, the Birkbeck poster was?

H-Albion ‏@halbion

Birkbeck EM Blog: MarineLives: Call for Project Volunteers: MarineLives, a project using collaborative transcrip... http://bit.ly/MxcplD

Sharon Howard ‏@sharon_howard

MarineLives project looking for volunteers http://wp.me/p322b-1d

10/08/12 14:23: I sent Birkbeck Early Modern a message on Twitter last week asking if they would be willing to promote the project. They didn't get back to me but I guess the blog post is a result of my message to them SL

Useful articles and secondary materials

2012-08-10T13:21:33Z

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'''Secondary Materials'''

'''Editorial history'''

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== Books ==

Appleby, John C., A Calendar of material relating to Ireland from the High Court of Admiralty Examinations, 1536-1641 (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1992)
Browning, E., V. Lushington, Reports of cases decided in the High Court of Admiralty of England, 1863-1865 (London, 1868)
Coldham, Peter Wilson, English adventurers and emigrants, 1609-1660: abstracts of examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to Colonial America (Baltimore, 1984)
Coote, Henry Charles, The new practice of the High Court of Admiralty of England: with the Rules of 1859, and a collection of forms, and bills of costs, &c., &c (London, 1860)
Dobson, David, American Data from the Records of the High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland, 1675-1800 (XXXX, 2009)
- Wilson states in his preface that he has worked largely from the Examination Books, and has omitted merchants' accounts and balance sheets
[http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=AOQzAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en Edwards, Edwin, A treatise on the jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty of England (London, 1847)]
[http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=qilEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en Horne, Thomas Hartwell, A compendium of the statute laws, and regulations of the Court of admiralty: relative to ships of war, privateers, prizes, recaptures, and prize-money. With an appendix of notes, precedents, &c (London, 1803)]
[http://books.google.co.uk/books/reader?id=mXwPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb_hover Inman, James, Nautical tables, designed for the use of British seamen (London, 1849])
- See [http://books.google.co.uk/books/reader?id=mXwPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb_hover&pg=GBS.PA380 'The Latitudes and Longitudes of Remarkable Harbours, Islands, Shoals, Capes, &c.', pp. 380 - 400]
Marsden, Reginald Godfrey, The High Court of Admiralty, (A.D. 1547-1602) (XXXX, 1953)
Prichard, M J and D E C Yale (eds.), Hale and Fleetwood on Admiralty Jurisdiction, Selden Society CVIII (London, 1993)
- Sir Mathew Hale, 1609-1676
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QcqV727jD2cC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Rodgers, N.A.M, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 (NY; Allen Lane, 2004)]
- I have linked this book title to Google Book preview (Colin, 10/08/12, 11:00)
[http://www.archive.org/stream/doctorscommonsa00senigoog#page/n7/mode/2up Senior, W., Doctors Commons and the old court of admiralty (London, 1922)]
- Internet Archive online edition
Shilton, Dorothy O. and Richard Holworthy, High Court of Admiralty Examinations, 1637-1638 (XXXX, 1932)
Shilton, Dorothy O. and Richard Holworthy, High Court of Admiralty Examinations, 1657-1658 (XXXX, 1932)
[http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/21.1/steckley.html Steckley, George F., 'Collisions, Prohibitions, and the Admiralty Court in Seventeenth-Century London,' ''Law and History Review'', Spring 2003], viewed 10 Nov. 2011
Steckley, George F., 'Instance cases at admiralty in 1657: A court "packed up with sutors"', The Journal of Legal History, vol. 7, issue 1, 1986, pp. 68-83
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== Articles ==

Article on early modern literature:

Mentz, Steve. "Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English Literature" http://www.stevementz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Toward-a-Blue-Cultural-Studies-final1.pdf
- The above link does not function, since requires a password. Is the book on Google Books? (Colin, 10/08/12, 10:57 a.m.)
- I found a PDF of it online & changed the link (SL)
- Sarah, I tried the new PDF link, but I get an error message
- It should work now

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== Websites ==

Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk

2012-08-10T12:02:08Z

Sarahlaseke:

Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk

2012-08-10T11:57:23Z

Sarahlaseke:

Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk

2012-08-10T11:55:06Z

Sarahlaseke:

Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk

2012-08-10T11:50:54Z

Sarahlaseke:

Useful articles and secondary materials

2012-08-10T10:09:42Z

Sarahlaseke:

'''Secondary Materials'''

'''Editorial history'''

08/08/12: XXXX created page
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== Books ==

Browning, E., V. Lushington, Reports of cases decided in the High Court of Admiralty of England, 1863-1865 (London, 1868)
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QcqV727jD2cC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Rodgers, N.A.M, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 (NY; Allen Lane, 2004)]
- I have linked this book title to Google Book preview (Colin, 10/08/12, 11:00)
[http://www.archive.org/stream/doctorscommonsa00senigoog#page/n7/mode/2up Senior, W., Doctors Commons and the old court of admiralty (London, 1922)]
- Internet Archive online edition
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== Articles ==

Article on early modern literature:

Mentz, Steve. "Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English Literature" <http://www.stevementz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Toward-a-Blue-Cultural-Studies-final1.pdf>

- The above link does not function, since requires a password. Is the book on Google Books? (Colin, 10/08/12, 10:57 a.m.)
- I found a PDF of it online & changed the link (SL)

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== Websites ==

Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk

2012-08-10T10:07:31Z

Sarahlaseke:

I've just posted our Call for Volunteers on a CfP Website: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/. It usually takes a while for it to appear online (SL)

Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk

2012-08-10T10:04:40Z

Sarahlaseke:

I've just posted our Call for Volunteers on a CfP Website: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/ (SL)

Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk

2012-08-10T10:04:31Z

Sarahlaseke:

I've just posted our Call for Volunteers on a American CfP Website: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/ (SL)

Forum

2012-08-09T08:27:55Z

Sarahlaseke:

Please leave a comment

[[Comments]]

Forum/Talk

2012-08-09T08:26:56Z

Sarahlaseke:

Hey guys. Apparently the comment box is the nearest thing the wiki.spot can do as regards to a forum - my guess is we can't enter code or anything to create one? (I'm not particular IT literate) so would the comments box suffice or would be wanting a link to a separate free forum site set up with somebody else where we could discuss things?

SL: I think that the comment box will be sufficient for now, as the wiki has got a Talk function, which seems to be very handy!

Useful articles and secondary materials

2012-08-09T08:25:47Z

Sarahlaseke:

'''Secondary Materials'''

'''Editorial history'''

08/08/12: XXXX created page
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== Books ==

N.A.M Rodgers ''The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815'' (NY; Allen Lane, 2004)
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== Articles ==

Article on early modern literature:

Mentz, Steve. "Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English Literature" <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00655.x/abstract>

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== Websites ==

Useful articles and secondary materials

2012-08-09T08:24:31Z

Sarahlaseke:

'''Secondary Materials'''

'''Editorial history'''

08/08/12: XXXX created page
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== Books ==

N.A.M Rodgers ''The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815'' (NY; Allen Lane, 2004)
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== Articles ==

Article on early modern literature:

Mentz, Steven. "Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English Literature" <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00655.x/abstract>

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== Websites ==

General Palaeography Resources/Talk

2012-08-09T08:19:17Z

Sarahlaseke:

(Will) - I've added the two links and book from Colin's wiki and added another one I found myself. Sarah do you have any good links or resources we can put here?

SL: No, I only know the NA link & books on medieval palaeography...

Kick Off Meeting 20 August

2012-08-09T08:16:29Z

Sarahlaseke:

'''Agenda'''

'''Things to be discussed'''

'''Attendance:'''

Themes

2012-08-09T08:15:44Z

Sarahlaseke:

'''Themes'''

'''Editorial history'''

'''08/08/12: WT, created new page'''
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==Index of themes==

[[File:ENGRAVING_Sir_Nicholas_Crispe_Anon_HistHammersmith_Faulkner_1839_OpTP_IArch_DL.PNG|thumbnail|300px]]

[http://www.marinelives.org/Languages.html Drunkenness]
[http://www.marinelives.org/Geography.html Geography]
[http://www.marinelives.org/Failure.html Failure]
[http://www.marinelives.org/Rough_words.html Insults]
[http://www.marinelives.org/Languages.html Languages]
[http://www.marinelives.org/Shipping.html Shipping]
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==Suggestions for new themes==

SL: Englishness?

Creating and Editing a Wiki Page

2012-08-08T09:17:25Z

Sarahlaseke:

Describe Creating and Editing a Wiki Page here.

Palaeography Training

2012-08-08T09:16:36Z

Sarahlaseke:

'''Useful resources'''

Kick Off Meeting 20 August

2012-08-08T09:15:12Z

Sarahlaseke:

'''Agenda'''

'''Things to be discussed'''

Team Members

2012-08-08T09:13:56Z

Sarahlaseke:

Describe Team Members here.

'''Current Vacancies'''

Project Facilitators:

Project Associates:

Schedule

2012-08-08T09:12:22Z

Sarahlaseke:

'''Monthly Schedule:'''

August 1st to 31st:

- Train facilitators online
- Work with facilitators to prepare online training material for associates
- Project leaders & facilitators to create a digital backbone for the project, with all images checked for quality and readability, and meta data created and input into wiki

'''''August 20th:'''''

- Face-to face one day meeting at TNA (August 20th) to look and feel the documents we will be working on, to meet TNA staff, and to practice technical and palaeographical skills. This meeting to consist of project facilitators & project experts

September 3rd to December 14th

- Allocation of facilitators to project associates
- Training of project associates directed and supported by facilitators
- Kick off transcription (plus linkage and enrichment) work
- Monthly on line review conferences using e-conferencing

'''Weekly Schedule:'''

Schedule

2012-08-08T09:11:50Z

Sarahlaseke:

Monthly Schedule:

August 1st to 31st:

- Train facilitators online
- Work with facilitators to prepare online training material for associates
- Project leaders & facilitators to create a digital backbone for the project, with all images checked for quality and readability, and meta data created and input into wiki

'''August 20th:'''

- Face-to face one day meeting at TNA (August 20th) to look and feel the documents we will be working on, to meet TNA staff, and to practice technical and palaeographical skills. This meeting to consist of project facilitators & project experts

September 3rd to December 14th

- Allocation of facilitators to project associates
- Training of project associates directed and supported by facilitators
- Kick off transcription (plus linkage and enrichment) work
- Monthly on line review conferences using e-conferencing

Weekly Schedule:

Schedule

2012-08-08T09:07:14Z

Sarahlaseke:

August 1st to 31st:

- Train facilitators online
- Work with facilitators to prepare online training material for associates
- Project leaders & facilitators to create a digital backbone for the project, with all images checked for quality and readability, and meta data created and input into wiki

'''August 20th:'''

- Face-to face one day meeting at TNA (August 20th) to look and feel the documents we will be working on, to meet TNA staff, and to practice technical and palaeographical skills. This meeting to consist of project facilitators & project experts

September 3rd to December 14th

- Allocation of facilitators to project associates
- Training of project associates directed and supported by facilitators
- Kick off transcription (plus linkage and enrichment) work
- Monthly on line review conferences using e-conferencing

Schedule

2012-08-08T09:01:47Z

Sarahlaseke:

August 1st to 31st:

- Train facilitators online
- Work with facilitators to prepare online training material for associates
- Project leaders & facilitators to create a digital backbone for the project, with all images checked for quality and readability, and meta data created and input into wiki

August 20th:

- Face-to face one day meeting at TNA (August 20th) to look and feel the documents we will be working on, to meet TNA staff, and to practice technical and palaeographical skills. This meeting to consist of project facilitators & project experts

September 3rd to December 14th

- Allocation of facilitators to project associates
- Training of project associates directed and supported by facilitators
- Kick off transcription (plus linkage and enrichment) work
- Monthly on line review conferences using e-conferencing

Schedule

2012-08-08T09:01:21Z

Sarahlaseke:

August 1st to 31st:

- Train facilitators online
- Work with facilitators to prepare online training material for associates
- Project leaders & facilitators to create a digital backbone for the project, with all images checked for quality and readability, and meta data created and input into wiki

August 20:

- Face-to face one day meeting at TNA (August 20th) to look and feel the documents we will be working on, to meet TNA staff, and to practice technical and palaeographical skills. This meeting to consist of project facilitators & project experts

September 3rd to December 14th

- Allocation of facilitators to project associates
- Training of project associates directed and supported by facilitators
- Kick off transcription (plus linkage and enrichment) work
- Monthly on line review conferences using e-conferencing