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:[http://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2015/can-you-read-early-modern-english-vcu-folger-transcribathon-lauded-as-success.html/ VCU Transcribathon: Can you read early modern English?]
:[http://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2015/can-you-read-early-modern-english-vcu-folger-transcribathon-lauded-as-success.html/ VCU Transcribathon: Can you read early modern English?]
:[http://emroc.hypotheses.org/830/ The Community of the Transcribathon]


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[[Category: Digital humanities]]

Revision as of 14:33, 3 May 2016

A transcribathon is an event running for a pre-determined number of hours, in which the participants transcribe and encode manuscripts. Here is a ongoing list of transcribathons held by EMMO [Early Modern Manuscripts Online].

December 4, 2014: Transcribe the Renaissance, a noon-to-midnight "transcribathon" in conjunction with the Kislak Center held at the University of Pennsylvania.

March 18, 2015: Transcribathon at UVa in conjunction with the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

October 7, 2015: Transcribathon in conjunction with the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

October 24, 2015: Transcribathon in conjunction with the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

November 13, 2015: Transcribathon in conjunction with the Humanities Center, VCU Libraries and VCU department of English at the University of Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, VA.

April 17, 2016: Transcribathon in conjunction with the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

Further links:

The Collation EMMO
BBC World News Cookbook features recipes to cure the plague
VCU Transcribathon: creating and empowering a community of new paleographers
VCU Transcribathon: Can you read early modern English?
The Community of the Transcribathon