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PWD featured in Chronicle Article

Published by on September 5, 2012 at 9:24 am

This week the hard work of the PWD editors and volunteer transcribers was featured in an article entitled “Historians Ask the Public to Help Organize the Past,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Reporter Marc Parry offered the story of the archive’s original reconstruction, its innovative online-first format, and our use of community transcription. The piece includes interviews with Editor-in-Chief Christopher Hamner, archive originator Ted Crackel, and the director of the Scripto community transcription tool project Sharon Leon.