Digitizing Texts

Image and transcription Sample

• Adams Family Papers
  • {http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/about/transdetail.php Guidelines]
• Martha Ballard Diary
• Harvard Open Collections

OCR

• Sample typed document
• Optical Character Scanning (OCR) Image of the document
• FreeOCR.net scanning of main paragraph

Developing Policies

• Sanger Project transcription policies
• Miller Center Oral History Guide
• Darwin Online Transcription Policy

Metadata & Search

• Walt Whitman Archive -text search only
• Founder's Online limited metadata plus text search
• Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger

Transcription Example