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Transcribathon in conjunction with the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Transcribathon in conjunction with the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Further links:
http://collation.folger.edu/2014/12/a-transcriba-what/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35011121

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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: http://collation.folger.edu/2014/12/a-transcriba-what/ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35011121