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Code for Transcribe Bentham MediaWiki plugins available
By Tim Causer, on 12 July 2011
As regular readers know, the award-winning Transcribe Bentham Transcription Desk was programmed and put together by a highly-talented team at the University of London Computer Centre, led by Richard Davis. Those who are thinking about crowdsourcing their own manuscript collection will no doubt be interested to learn that Richard has recently made available the code for the Transcribe Bentham MediaWiki plugins here. They comprise the transcription toolbar, support for TEI markup, and support for viewing images. There are accompanying instructions on how to make the code work, and details of other plugins used to produce the Transcription Desk.
To use these plugins, you – or someone on your team – must be familiar with the installation and setting up of MediaWiki on a web server. You should also be prepared for the possibility that some settings within the code are specific to Transcribe Bentham, and be able to reconfigure them for your own purposes.
You may wish to consult Richard’s instructions which will no doubt prove far more helpful than this blogpost. We hope the plugins will be of use to those wishing to use them!
(with thanks to Richard and his team for putting this together)
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Related News Sources: Collaborative Digitization at ALA 2014 << Ben Brumfield (Collaborative Manuscript Transcription) | archaeoINaction wrote on 22 August 2014:
[…] of mark-up [support] which do exist. One of them is a subset of TEI markup. It’s part of this TEI Toolbar which was developed by Transcribe Bentham for their own platform [the Bentham Transcription Desk] […]
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Related News Sources: Collaborative Digitization at ALA 2014 << Ben Brumfield (Collaborative Manuscript Transcription) | archaeoINaction wrote on 22 August 2014:
[…] of mark-up [support] which do exist. One of them is a subset of TEI markup. It’s part of this TEI Toolbar which was developed by Transcribe Bentham for their own platform [the Bentham Transcription Desk] […]
[…] In other TB news this week, the code for the Transcription Desk has now been released and is available to re-use; we look forward to seeing if and how others utilise the transcription tool. You can read more about it here. […]