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Chris Stamm in Citizen Archivists5 months ago (Show more)

Hello, I am unclear if a Telegram is considered a form, and only the text that has been inserted into theTelegram form should be transcribed. Any help is appreciated.

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Meredith Doviak

(to Chris Stamm) 5 months ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Chris, Thank you for your question, and for your work as a Citizen Archivist. We do consider a telegram a form, since in many cases there is standard information in the heading or the footer of the document. We suggest not spending too much time transcribing this pre-printed information, since it is not critical for searching the…

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Rhea Eason in Citizen Archivists6 months ago (Show more)

Question Regarding [handwritten] and More

Q: I am a newbie and obviously, I think I've been mistaken. I used [handwritten] inside the transcript area but did not close the bracket. I saw that someone updated the record with [handwritten/] to begin and to close the out the brackets it was [/handwritten]. Is this correct? I didn't see in the training videos or anywhere else requiring XML… (Show more)

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Meredith Doviak

(to Rhea Eason) 6 months ago (Show more Show less)

Dear Rhea, Thank you for your question, and for your work as a Citizen Archivist! We are happy to have you on the team. We suggest that our transcribers use brackets [ ] to describe additional details in the document or make a notation about something you see in the record that would be helpful to the next reader. We generally tell our…

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Rhea Eason in Citizen Archivists6 months ago (Show more)

Tags (Metadata) Capitalization

Does it matter how the tag or metadata input is capitalized or not? Can it be mixed capitalization? For example a single tag "AIR MEDAL DECORATION" and the next tag be "Oak Leaf Clusters". I don't know if this was published or not. I discovered that the tags are comma delimited.

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Meredith Doviak

(to Rhea Eason) 6 months ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Rhea, Thank you for your work as a Citizen Archivist! When adding tags in the National Archives Catalog, capitalization is not critical. Tags can be mixed capitalization, or all lowercase letters. (We typically do not recommend using all capital letters, as it can sometimes be more difficult to read on the computer screen.) Search results in…

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