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Transcription protocols



I would welcome any suggestions regarding standards or protocols for
transcribing letters and diaries.
I have some summer work study students available to transcribe (cursive to
typescript) some pioneer
diaries and correspondence.  Is there a  standard set of protocols someone
might care to recommend
for use in such work?

I've searched WORLCAT and have found  numerous examples of transcribed
diaries, letters, etc., but as of yet,
no  guide that would include a standardized way of indicating such things as
indecipherable words,
misspellings, omissions, etc.  I've checked several of the oral history
volumes in our collection with regard to creating
transcriptions, but these offered little help since they were written for an
entirely different purpose.

I am on digest mode so you can email the list or me directly at the address
below.

Again, any assistance or thoughts about this matter would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Alex Toth
Social Sciences/Special Collections Librarian
Harvey W. Scott Memorial Library
Pacific University
2043 College Way
Forest Grove, OR 97116

Phone (503) 359-2737  Fax (503) 359-2236
Email <tothalex@pacificu.edu>

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