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Re: Multiple page document
V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
Dec 4, 2018 4:01 PM
Hi Cynthia,
It's always good practice to save a few times as you go along, and only click submit when you feel you have transcribed all of the content of a given image. An image means the thing you see on the left hand side of the interface, next to the white transcription pane. An image can contain a single page, and sometimes 2 pages. If you wanted to transcribe a multi-page letter, and each of those pages was given its own image, save and submit before you go to the next page. Once you've submitted a page you won't be able to go back and make edits to it. At that stage it's in "review" and a another volunteer will need to take a look at it.
Hope that helps!
-Victoria
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Re: Multiple page document
My concern has been if I transcribe the left page,save and submit, then I may not be able to transcribe the right page because both pages are one image. Is this not true?
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Re: Multiple page document
1 person found this helpfulIf there's a single image with a left page and a right page (basically a picture of an opened book) and a single transcription pane, I'd transcribe the left page, and save it but not submit it. Then I'd transcribe the right page (in the same pane) and save again. I like to go back and make sure I haven't made any glaring typos, save again if I've made any corrections, and then hit submit.
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Re: Multiple page document
V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
Dec 6, 2018 10:17 AM
That's right Jennifer! Save as you go, but don't hit submit until you think a page is ready to be reviewed. That means that the whole transcription is close to being finished. If you hit save but do not hit submit all that means is that someone or even you could look at the page in future and make changes before the page goes into review.
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Re: Multiple page document
Uh oh, I haven't been doing it that way and I have done a lot of transcribing. I have been doing diaries and did not place the days side by side. I hope I didn't cause a problem and create more work. I will start doing it that way now.
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Re: Multiple page document
V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
Dec 6, 2018 12:49 PM
1 person found this helpfulDon't worry Henry. Just to clarify, you should transcribe the pages one after another, so all the text on the left (for left to right languages, which applies to everything we've published so far), and then below that transcription you can do everything from the right hand page. You don't need to mirror the layout of the original, as that will largely be lost when we import your transcriptions into the Library's website. So, you're just typing continuously, top to bottom, not worrying about any other layout features other than line breaks. Does that make sense?
-Victoria
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Re: Multiple page document
I had been doing it the way you suggested. I would do the first day on the page and then do the second day below it. I'm just glad I didn't mess up 1905 for Mary Church Terrell.
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