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Category: transcription

  • Powell Diary TEI

    Please post the links to your TEI compliant XML encoded Powell files to this page! Duke Repko – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell1.xml Matt Lucas – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell2.xml John Edler – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell3.xml Ryan Clifford – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell4.xml Madeline Purdy –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell5.xml Jiayu Huang –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell6.xml Qijing Zheng –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell7.xml Sir Nicholas Miller http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell8.xml Claire Maree W O’Bryan http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell9.xml Complete version is here http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell_Compiled.xml

  • Transcription Reflection 1

    The transcription process was totally new to me and I had plenty of difficulty initially. At first, it seemed as though every other word was something I had never seen before in the English language, or the handwriting was nearly illegible. However, after a few sentences I started to get a hang of it not…

  • How Far The English Language Has Come

    The transcription process was a relatively smooth process once I continued to see the same words used over and over again. It was very tedious and difficult to make sense of the sentences, but as the man from the Bethlehem Moravian Archives said, one should focus on each word individually in order to transcribe most…

  • Transcribing: The Struggle and the Success

    Transcribing a document is a very tedious, yet rewarding experience. It is amazing that correlation between how people wrote and talked then, to how they do now. Yes, there are many grammatical differences, but the fact that we can still read and for the most part understand these documents, is phenomenal. As great as it is,…

  • Powell Diary: Transcription Reflection

    While transcribing old archives is very interesting and useful, it is a tedious process that at some points can be frustrating.   However with the right introduction and knowledge of what exactly is being transcribed, the process seemingly swift. The transcription process of archives such as the Powell Diary require a knowledge base of certain characters…

  • Is it a “S” or a “F”?

    The transcription of an archival document is not possible without contextual knowledge that the artefact is submerged in. Essentially, the only individual that knows exactly what is written, is the individual who wrote it. Technology today enables us to read a typed document and have no difficulty recognising every letter that is written. Archival documents…

  • Transcription: Conquering Old English

    The transcription process is a very tedious yet interesting procedure. With the use of transcription, people can gain access to millions of archives that they had no previous chance of having . In addition, the use of transcription allows people to easily read the writing from the original document which they may have previously not…

  • Transcription: Challenges and Achievement

    My first attempt on transcription was really unsuccessful: on a 52-minute class, I transcribed only two lines of the Powell Diary. Since I was not a native speaker of English, I unconsciously believed that this assignment was too hard for me. I was diffident and uncertain about every word of my transcription. It was on Wednesday…

  • Transcription Process: Difficulities To Learn a “New” Language

       ↑ Press to play(Mission Impossible Theme) Transcription Process is really important while researching old archives. It can be described as a “strange learning experience”. Original text is quite tricky and difficult for me to understand. Challenges can be summed up to 3 parts : mysterious hand writing, intricate grammar and wrong pronunciation. For example, on this…

  • How the Transcription Process Went

    Transcribing old english documents can sometimes be tricky, especially when the author is a little careless like Powell in his diary.  It is written in a sloppy cursive with many spelling errors and a few pronouns, causing issues while rewriting. Also, the rewriting part of transcription be difficult digitally because there aren’t many softwares that…