Please join us for a digital workshop (see the project site here) focused on learning how to use FromThePage, a new software program that JHU has recently acquired. FromThePage is a fantastic tool for organizing, transcribing and translating archival and documentary sources all in one place. It is a tool that will be of use to scholars in all fields who work with manuscripts, hand-written texts, and early printed materials. 

The workshop will be led by Dr. Laura Morreale, a world renown expert in the field of DH technologies and humanities work, who had convened and led numerous transcription challenges and workshops. Dr. Morreale is joined by Prof. Stephen Nichols (Emeritus, French and Italian, JHU) who founded the Digital Library for Medieval Manuscripts at Hopkins and spearheaded one of the first major DH projects, which brought together all the known manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose.

This in-person Workshop event (Thursday, November 9  from 9:30-11:30am in BLC 5015/7) will kick off a three-day, asynchronous collaborative transcription of selected Hopkins-based texts using the program FromThePage. Participants will devote up to 1 hour per day to the effort. We will conclude with a final online reveal, Saturday, November 11 at 12 noon. Lunch on Thursday will be served at noon for all participants who RSVP.

Please sign up here no later than 8am on Wednesday, November 8.

For more information, please contact Anne E. Lester ([email protected]).

This event is co-sponsored by the Singleton Center, the Medieval World Seminar, and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.