Ordinary lives – extraordinary times
The next #AskLetters1916 Twitter chat will take place on Tuesday 3 March 2015 from 5.30 – 6.30pm (GMT). The chat will be hosted by Vinayak Das Gupta, a PhD student in Trinity College Dublin and will focus on CURATING THE Continue reading #AskLetters1916 chat: 3 March | Curating the Crowdsourced
Professor Susan Schreibman from the Letters of 1916 project spoke about digital preservation and knowledge loss in the digital age on The Right Hook on Newstalk on Thursday 19 February 2015. Following a recent statement from Google’s vice-president Vint Cerf Continue reading Professor Susan Schreibman speaks to George Hook about Knowledge Loss in the Digital Age
Letters of 1916 project awarded a SFI Discover grant from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a SFI Discover grant from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). The funding will allow the Letters Continue reading Letters of 1916 project awarded a SFI Discover grant from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
In the past month You transcribed 233426 characters of which 95% was by the top 20 transcribers. We welcomed 86 new users and we have achieved a new record: Anne Bowes (Annie) from Limerick transcribed 91871 characters! This is almost double what each Continue reading Progress update: January 2015
The next #AskLetters1916 Twitter chat will take place on Tuesday 3 February 2015 from 5.30 – 6.30pm (GMT). The topic for the chat is: WOMEN IN 1916 We are delighted to announce that Dr Mary McAuliffe from UCD Women’s Studies Continue reading #AskLetters1916 Twitter Chat | 3 February 2015, 17.30 – 18.30
In the past month You transcribed 312673 characters of which 88% was by the top 20 transcribers. We are overwhelmed by the number of new users and subscribers! Except for one, and well known super-transcriber Philcostel, the majority of transcriptions was completed by new Continue reading Progress update: December 2014
On the 3rd and 4th September 2014 the letters of 1916 project visited the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) to collect and photograph letters held in its archives. PRONI was established in 1923 and operates as the archival Continue reading A visit to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
In the past month You transcribed 151537 characters of which 93% was by the top 20 transcribers. Philcostel secured his first place again by doing 22% of all the transcriptions in November! We are delighted to see that the majority of the Continue reading Progress update: November 2014
The monthly #AskLetters1916 Twitter chat took place on Tuesday 2 December from 5.30 – 6.30pm (GMT). The topic for the chat was: CROWDSOURCING – THE VOLUNTEERS Back in July 2014, the #AskLetters1916 chat took place around Continue reading #AskLetters1916 chat: 2 December | Crowdsourcing: The Volunteers
We have just added our newest featured letter post to the site. The post was created by Edward Kearns who studied English and Sociology in University College Dublin before moving on to the M.Phil course in Digital Humanities and Culture in Trinity College Dublin. Continue reading Featured Letter by Edward Kearns: John Quinn to George Gavan Duffy, 9 September 1916