Don’t miss the nice profile of the Papers of the War Department and our use of community transcription in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
PWD has been the primary testing ground for our work on Scripto. Though the article voices some concern about the ability of community transcription to add efficiency to the documentary editing process, it nails the important benefits for community building and user investment.
About Sharon Leon
Sharon M. Leon is Director of Public Projects and Research Associate Professor at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Her research interests include the history of religion in the U.S., especially Roman Catholicism, history of science and twentieth century cultural history. She received her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and her doctorate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2004. Her book An Image of God: the Catholic Struggle with Eugenics is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press (June 2013).
