The Service Committee would like to present its Spring project: Supporting digital historical initiatives. Most of the projects below ask for assistance with transcribing documents. Transcription adds so much value by helping make documents more discoverable in catalogs and other search engines. Digital transcription projects are projects you can work on from the comfort of your own home (with one exception below). Be a part of history while helping to share it with others!
The organizations below welcome your support:
State Organizations:
Massachusetts Historical Society: https://www.masshist.org/mymhs/
Digital Main Transcription Project: http://digitalmaine.net/projects/contributors
ArtInRuins (Rhode Island): https://artinruins.com/support/#donate-time-andor-expertise
Regional Organizations:
Historic New England: https://www.historicnewengland.org/explore/library-archives/casey-family-papers-archive/help-transcribe-the-casey-family-papers/
National Organizations:
National Archives and Records Administration: https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/get-started-transcribing
Native Northeast Portal: https://nativenortheastportal.com/
Serving Communities, Shaping Scholarship, Strengthening the Humanities
“The Native Northeast Research Collaborative‘s Native Northeast Portal contains primary source materials by, on, or about Northeast Indians from repositories around the world. Documents are digitized, transcribed, annotated, reviewed by the appropriate contemporary descendant community representatives, and brought together with scholarly annotations and academic/community commentary into one edited interactive digital collection. The Portal currently contains thousands of records associated with scores of Native communities.“