Digital Paleography Transcribe-a-Thon

Who: Lia Markey and Isabella Magni  (The Newberry Library, Italian and French paleography) with Heather Wolfe and Meaghan Brown (The Folger Library, English paleography), Brian Sandberg (Northern Illinois University , French paleography) and Donal Hagerty (St. Louis University, developer of T-pen) 

Short Description:  Two consecutive workshops where from 2:30-3:30 scholars use the Folger’s Dromio to transcribe English documents and then from 3:30-4:30 scholars use the Newberry’s T-pen to transcribe French and Italian documents. Workshops to be led by the paleographers who helped to develop the sites. 

Please remember to bring your laptop to the session!

Resources, Tools, Projects:

Newberry’s T-pen sites and Folger’s Dromio