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Jeanne Kramer-Smyth commented on the post, How to make Freebase useful in the digital humanities?, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 right now

Someone tweeted about wanting to chart when women were first admitted to various medical schools. I decided to go on step further and requested that Freebase add a way to capture ‘gender enrollment’ for all […]

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth commented on the post, Crowdsourcing Transcriptions, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

I look forward to seeing your demo!

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth commented on the post, Dork Shorts, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

Sort of old school – but anyone interested in a SQL basics talk?

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth wrote a new post, Crowdsourcing Transcriptions, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

The other idea I would love to talk about is the idea of distributed document transcription as I explain it in my blog post: Archival Transcriptions: for the public, by the public. While I do love what reCaptcha […]

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth commented on the post, Challenges to Historical Visualization: the Need for an Event Standard, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

It might be interesting to consider how the FreeBase.com community is handling the collection of structured data surrounding events : http://freebase.com/view/time/event

For example – I love that they have […]

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth wrote a new post, Visualizing Aggregated Data, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

I would love to discuss ideas for visualizing aggregated data.

My personal focus has been on descriptive data about archival record groups and manuscript collections – with a stress on subject terms, quantity of […]