Comments for Alejandro Giacometti

Comment on Amateur Digitisation by @benwbrum

@benwbrum — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:50:44 +0000

As part of a collaboration with a different project, I'm looking at integrating my transcription software (FromThePage) with the Internet Archive. They have a magnificently open BookReader tool, which may be embedded as an IFrame or integrated into a page via JavaScript. It seems specialized to use the Archive.org server software as a back end, but the Internet Archive does already have community-originated texts and a public upload tool. I'm only in the early stages of exploring it--and then just for texts digitized by Archive.org, rather than those uploaded by the community--but it looks quite promising. I do hope you'll post about what kind of solution you come up with.

Comment on Amateur Digitisation by Alejandro Giacometti

Alejandro Giacometti — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:06:50 +0000

Thanks for the links! I am aware of the Transcribe Bentham project. I have to go through the available software and try to settle on something simple. Also, there is the issue of hosting the images online in a way in which they can be downloaded quickly and also provide fine detailed views.

Comment on Amateur Digitisation by @benwbrum

@benwbrum — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:42:09 +0000

Best of luck to you all on this noble project. You've done an impressive job capturing the page images given such limited tools. I hope you are able to transcribe the document, and encourage you to research Melissa Terras's post on transcription tools as well as perhaps my own blog on the subject. To my eye, you're going to need to do some careful thought about whether you need full-blown TEI to indicate the gaps and diacritics, or whether a well-defined set of transcription conventions applied to plain-text will suffice. And obviously, you'll need Unicode support, unless you plan to transliterate the text as you transcribe.

Comment on Convenientes Distracciones by Barrera aplicaría tres tasas a Quito

Barrera aplicaría tres tasas a Quito — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:53:51 +0000

[…] Estamos muy conscientes del berrinche de los medios ecuatorianos y su cruzada por evadir ser regulados con el pretexto de defender la libertad de expresión. Sin embargo, pocos hablan de la censura de facto que es producto del monopolio que ejercen los medios privados al ser los únicos dueños de la verdad. El producto es medios totalmente mediocres dominados por opiniones y muy poco análisis. Escribí más extensamente al respecto y del excelente estudio de Isabel Ramos de la FLACSO. […]

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Tweets that mention E-Research on Texts & Images -- Topsy.com — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:02:48 +0000

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Comment on I stole your nuts for my wife by janrito

janrito — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:38:26 +0000

I was walking up the street after this happened and I was laughing aloud by myself thinking about all the things that I could have said. Every single one seemed better than the last…
– Bone appetit
– They are extra salty today, I’ve been walking the whole day
– You can’t just take them, at least give me a hug.

Comment on I stole your nuts for my wife by Francesco

Francesco — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:26:56 +0000

jajaja que buena papa!

Comment on I stole your nuts for my wife by justin

justin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:50 +0000

you know, the more I think about it, this is just like a Hemingway short story!

Comment on I stole your nuts for my wife by justin

justin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:00 +0000

hahahaha, you should have told him you needed them back when she was done with them.

Comment on Volver by Vie!

Vie! — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:13:59 +0000

Extracts from Graham Swift’s Waterland:
“So how do we know — lost in the desert — that it is to the oasis of the yet-to-come we should be travelling anyway, and not to some other green Elysium that, a long while ago, we left behind? And how do we know that this mountain of baggage called History, which we are obliged to lug with us — which slows our pace to a crawl and makes us stagger off course — is really hindering us from advancing or retreating? Which way does salvation lie?
No wonder we move in circles.”

“(…) there’s this thing called civilization. It’s built of hopes and dreams. It’s only an idea. It’s not real. It’s artificial. No one ever said it was real. It’s not natural. No one ever said is was natural. It’s built by the learning process; by trial and error. It breaks easily. No one said it couldn’t fall to bits. And no one ever said it would last forever.”

“My humble model for progress is the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-endingly retrieving what is lost. A dogged, vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaken the reclamation of land for the building of empires.”