Guides: Digital Scholarship: Transcription & Annotation

Transcription & Annotation Tools

Zooniverse
About: Crowdsourced transcription.
Access: Create a free account to work on existing transcription projects or to add your own project.
Application type: Web application.
Hypothesis
About: Web-based annotation tool, with browser plug-in and collaboration capabilities.
Access: Create a free Hypothesis account.
Application type: Web application.
Scripto
About: Integrate with Omeka, Wordpress, or Drupal to enable community transcriptions of document and multimedia files.
Access: Free and open source.
Annotation Tools from TAPoR
List of additional annotation tools from TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research). Please note that this list is not curated by the Gordon Library.

Annotating The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
About: Students annotated a literary anthology created by a professor.
Tools: Hypothes.is, Pressbooks
Anti-Slavery Manuscripts
About: Crowdsourced transcription project for the handwritten correspondence between anti-slavery activists in the 19th century held at the Boston Public Library.
Tool: Zooniverse