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Name | Ben Brumfield |
How do you Define DH? | Very narrowly, so that _I_ belong but _you_ don’t. |
Affiliation | FromThePage digitization software |
Bio | Ben is an independent software developer in Austin Texas who specializes in tools for crowdsourced manuscript transcription and community edition. His open-source FromThePage system (http://fromthepage.com) has been used by libraries, museums, and scholars to edit and analyze literary, naturalistic, and historical materials. Currently he is working with FreeBMD to develop a new tool for transcribing tabular data like census records or parish registers along Open Source/Open Data principles. In 2009 Ben organized the first regional THATCamp in his home of Austin, Texas. |