Transcribe for a public archive The Field Ledger
Contribute to a public crowd project under your own account, then write a 600-word field note on one document or on how the project keeps its quality up.
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- In detail
- Contributes under their own account to a public crowd project (By the People, the Smithsonian Transcription Center, Citizen Archivist, Zooniverse, iNaturalist), then writes a 600-word field note on one document or on how the project controls quality
- What you leave with
- Piece page
- Who confirms it
- Two students at other colleges opened the public pages and typed a quoted line and a date. Tillyard did not check them itself.
- What goes on your résumé
- Service: Transcribed pages of the Clara Barton Papers for a Library of Congress crowd project and wrote a field note on an 1864 letter; quotations and dates checked against the public pages by two students at other colleges
An example. Yours will say what you did.
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You own what you make here. If you made it for a class, a lab or an employer, someone else may have a claim on it, so leave it out. You do this unpaid and by choice, and you do not work for Tillyard. You are keeping a record of something you chose to do.