Tools: January 2018 kickoff skype call

Skype call to kickoff January 2018 volunteer group

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CALL:

• Be at your PC or laptop five minutes before the time of the call and logged into Skype
• Colin will create a Skype group and originate the call
• If at any time you drop off the call due to technical reasons, Colin will attempt to bring you back in

Proposed January 2018 Kickoff Skype Call Agenda

(1) Quick individual introductions (1 min each)

- Gentle nudge: for those who have not uploaded a picture of themselves and written a couple of lines, you can find inspiration from your colleagues efforts here:

January 2018 biographies

(2) Quick teach in on use of the wiki (15 mins)

- adding text to wiki pages
- inserting footnotes
- creating new wiki pages

[Colin will post some supporting notes to this wiki page before the call to act as an aide memoire on the above]

(3) Forming a transcription sub-group and a textiles, garments and dyestuffs sub-group (20 mins)

Colin's discussions with you individually suggest that some of you are keen to improve your transcription skills, and others want more of a focus on the textiles, garments and dyestuffs glossary

Coin therefore suggests we form two sub-groups (a) transcription skills & practice (b) developing the textiles, graments and dyestuffs glossary

This does not stop members of the textiles, garments and dyestuffs glossary group from improving their transcription skills! Indeed, I am going to suggest that one of the remits of this glossary group is to identify C17th manuscript material, preferably from the 1627-1677 period, for imaging and upload. We can then collectively transcribe this material, contributing it to the commons via our wiki, and use the material for sources of more glossary terms and glossary commentary. I have taken a start by identifying some London and surrounds based dyer inventories, but I am totally open to the group establishing what type of material would be most valuable - we have a number of textile and garment experts amongst our volunteers, and I look forward to learning from you, with myself as the facilitator.

Sample of London & surrounds dyer inventories for possible imaging & collective transcription

We need to:

- Decide who is in each group
- How we want to work in each group in terms of (a) frequency of group sessions (b) availability and use of 1:1 support by Colin

(4) AOB

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Transcription sub-group

Definite members

Amber Berkeley
Axel Hee Rømer
Deborah Sherlock

Issues for discussion

• How much transcription experience of sub-group members have of transcription, and specifically C17th transcription? Beginner, intermediate, advanced?
• How much time do sub-group members want to put in per week, per month (helps Colin think about putting together individual support and sugegsted mansucripts to work on)
• Are there particular themes or document types sub-group members would like to work on?

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Textiles, Garments & Dyestuffs sub-group

Definite members

Freyalynn Close-Hainsworth
Susan Mee

Issues for discussion

• What specialist knowledge and skills do we have amongst members of this sub-group related to textiles, garments and dyestuffs?
• Are there particular topics individuals wish to focus on?
• How shall we allocate work on a weekly or bi-weekly basis?
• Should we form an editorial group?
• Should we establish some editorial standards?
• How should we establish new manuscript sources for the period 1627-1677, related to the themes of the glossary, and ideally to MarineLives, which we can image and transcribe as new sources for the glossary?

Glossary entry example

'Would', Textiles, Garments & Dyestuffs Glossary entry

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Wiki support notes

To see the characters and very simple expressions you need to use to produce basic typographical effects, to create and insert footnotes, to create headers of different sizes, and to upload and insert images of different sizes and positions on the page, GO INTO EDIT MODE AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE, THEN VIEW THE WIKI SUPPORT NOTES

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Basic typography

Basics

Bold

Italics

Underline

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Footnotes

Footnote

Second footnote

Footnote with internal wiki link

Link to an external web link

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Header One

Header Two

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Images

Colin & Bron

Colin & Bron

Colin & Bron

Testimonial

Testimonial

Testimonial