Tools: Huntington Library transcription experiment
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Background
- Colin Greenstreet (co-director of MarineLives) met in November 2017 with Dr Steve Hindle (Interim President & W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, The Huntington Library) and Dr Vanessa Wilkie (William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval & British Historical Manuscrips, The Huntington Library). The purpose of the meeting was to introduce MarineLives as a project and to begin to explore the possibility of collaboration with the Huntington.
- Dr Wilkie kindly agreed to a small scale experiment, with MarineLives and Michael Bennett (Huntington Fellow and Sheffield PhD candidate), for Michael to image a number of manuscript pages from Dr Wilkie's collections. These will be displayed on the MarineLives wiki in early 2018 and made available for collaborative transcription.
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Goals
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Manuscript sources
- 158 images
- The first set of images are of the Humphrey Slaney vs. Thomas King court case (c. 1627-1630). Some of these documents are lengthy, while others are very short.
- The second set of images relate to the state of the royal navy and merchant shipping in England c. 1626-1628
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Digitisation
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Transcription
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