[Genealib] Transcription vendor

[Danielle Plumer]

Jackie,

Give me a call. I'm working with the University of North Texas on the Texas Digital Newspaper Project, and we've worked up some numbers for folks interested in adding their papers to the collection. The first phase of the project, funded by the NEH/Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Project, will focus on papers of statewide importance for the period of roughly 1890-1920, but we'd like to try to find funds to do other papers, as well.

The project involves digitizing papers, from microfilm whenever possible and adding OCR'd text to provide full text search access to them, plus issue-level metadata. If anyone else is curious, you can contact me or Dreanna Belden (dbelden at library.unt.edu), who is the project evangelist.

Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
dplumer at tsl.state.tx.us


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[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu]On Behalf Of Jackie
Icenhower
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:18 AM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: [Genealib] Transcription vendor


Does anyone know of a good vendor who will transcribe old newspapers from
microfilm?  We want to index and digitize, and it seems that transcription
will just be the most direct way.  Does anyone have an idea of how much it
will cost?  Will they charge by typed page or page of newsprint or by the
hour?

Jackie Icenhower, Director
Atlanta Public Library
101 W. Hiram
Atlanta, TX 75551
903-796-2112
fax 903-799-4067
www.atlantalib.com 

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