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The Norwich University Archives announces the launch of an innovative project to make the early handwritten records of Norwich history more accessible than ever. Cursive to Keyword is a crowdsourcing transcription website that can be found at transcribe.norwich.edu. It invites volunteers to help transcribe over 1,000 handwritten documents from the papers of our founder Captain Alden Partridge.
These documents are already available digitally on the Archives website but transcription will enable them to be full text searchable providing more open access to the treasure trove of information about our past they contain. Only about 10% of the thousands of manuscripts available on the archives website currently have this searching capability.
The NU Archives has been working with students and volunteers to transcribe documents one at a time since 2014. Transcription can help students engage deeply with historical documents and think critically about their role in shaping our understanding of the past. The new crowdsourcing website will allow us to continue working toward those goals while accelerating the project in anticipation of the university's bicentennial in 2019.
Visit transcribe.norwich.edu today to try your hand at transcribing a handwritten manuscript. We invite all members of the community to help us make Norwich history accessible to all!
Questions? Contact the Norwich University Archives at archives@norwich.edu or 802-485-2947.
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