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Collaboration is restricted for this collection. Please contact the project owner if you wish to help transcribe.
- The goal is to create text that mirrors the document you are transcribing. Below are some basic guidelines.
- Crossed-out and inserted text: Transcribe the crossed-out text within <s> and </s> and type replacement text (if any) after the </s>. Example where "built" replaces "made": "We
madea fire." would be transcribed as "We <s>made</s> built a fire." - Ditto marks: When a line contains ditto marks (") or other typographical symbols used to indicate that the text in the line above is repeated, type the text out instead of transcribing the symbol.
- Formatting text: Do not indicate font style, text insertions, or underlined, bolded, or italicized text. Use a double dash (--) to indicate an em-dash. If a word is hyphenated because it goes across two lines, type it out as one word.
- Indecipherable text: Type "illegible" in square brackets --
[illegible]
-- to indicate the presence of indecipherable text. - Line and paragraph breaks: Hit
return
once after each line ends. Hitreturn
twice to indicate a new paragraph. In handwritten documents, a new paragraph is often indicated by an indentation. - Misspellings: Type the word as it is written in the document
- Punctuation marks: Transcribe periods, commas, and other punctuation marks as they appear in the text, even if it is grammatically incorrect.
- Word order and insertions: Maintain the original word order even if it is grammatically incorrect. Add any text insertions where the author indicates they should go