Transcribathon
A transcribathon is an event running for a pre-determined number of hours (generally, 3-12 hours), in which participants transcribe and encode manuscripts, individually or in small groups, in the same room or across many rooms simultaneously.
If you are interested in hosting an EMMO transcribathon at your institution, please contact Heather Wolfe (hwolfe@folger.edu). EMMO transcribathons generally involve food, fun, entertaining manuscripts, transcription sprints, prizes, and an easy-to-use online transcription platform called Dromio. We tailor the manuscript content and the difficulty of the handwriting to the needs of the host institution, and offer a short tutorial in deciphering secretary hand if desired.
Transcriptions from past and future EMMO transcribathons will be added to a searchable EMMO database and made available to users beginning in 2017.
A timeline of [1] transcribathons:
2016
April 17, 2016: Transcribathon in conjunction with the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
2015
November 13, 2015: Transcribathon in partnership with the Humanities Center, VCU Libraries and VCU department of English at the University of Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, VA.
October 24, 2015: Transcribathon in partnership with the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
October 7, 2015: Transcribathon in partnership with the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
March 18, 2015: Transcribathon in partnership with the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
2014
December 4, 2014: Transcribe the Renaissance, a noon-to-midnight transcribathon in partnership with the Kislak Center held at the University of Pennsylvania.
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