Software, E-Resource Transcription datasets from the Wm. Oland Bourne Papers, Manuscript Division By the People transcription campaign title : Civil War Soldiers : 'Disabled but not disheartened'
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Title
- Transcription datasets from the Wm. Oland Bourne Papers, Manuscript Division
Other Title
- By the People transcription campaign title : Civil War Soldiers : 'Disabled but not disheartened'
Summary
- This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 5,589 images from the Wm. Oland Bourne Papers created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign, Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened.” It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia.
- The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened” (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/civil-war-soldiers-disabled-but-not-disheartened/). The campaign consisted of all then-available online images of digitized content from the Wm. Oland Bourne Paper, with the exception of oversized periodicals, which were transcribed in their entirety. As editor of the periodical The Soldier's Friend, William Oland Bourne sponsored two Left-hand Penmanship contests in 1865-1867 in which Union soldiers and sailors who lost their right arms by disability or amputation during the Civil War were invited to submit samples of their penmanship. The transcribed materials include correspondence and broadsides concerning the contests and many of the penmanship entries submitted. Also included are three autograph books of reminiscences Bourne collected from soldiers and sailors while chaplain of Central Park Hospital in New York from 1864 to 1865, and materials related to Bourne's political activism in New York City, particularly with the Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association. See the Bourne digital collection for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information, such as a timeline, an essay on the history of the penmanship contests, and bibliographic resources (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000043).
- The Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened” transcription data were created by 867 registered volunteers and an unknown number of anonymous volunteers. The Library of Congress thanks all By the People volunteers for sharing their time and knowledge with us. The Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened” campaign was initially transcribed and reviewed between October 24, 2018, and April 14, 2020. An additional 80 assets were published and completed between May 24 and July 16, 2022. A final addition of 350 assets were completed between November 7 and 27, 2023.
- Note: This dataset may contain UNICODE characters or lengthy transcriptions which may display incorrectly in some spreadsheet editors.
- About versioning: Version 1 of the dataset was initially created on 2020-12-10. Version 2 of the dataset was created 2022-10-12 to include a revised README and tags data in the CSV. Both .CSV files are direct exports of the Civil War Soldiers campaign. Version 3 of the dataset was created 2024-05-09 to include a revised README and tags and transcripts for all assets in the digital collection..
- Version 3, description and contents: This dataset includes 2019667237_v3.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file. civil-war-soldiers-disabled-but-not-disheartened_2024-05-09.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened” campaign.
- Version 2, description of contents: This dataset includes 2019667237_v2.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file. civil-war-soldiers-disabled-but-not-disheartened_2022-10-12.csv contains campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags.
- Version 1, description of contents: This dataset includes zip file containing a CSV file and a README file. civil-war-soldiers-disabled-but-not-disheartened_2020-12-10.csv contains campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image link, and the volunteer-generated transcriptions.
Names
- By the People (Program), compiler
- Bourne, Wm. Oland (William Oland), 1819-1901
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2020
Headings
- - Penmanship--Competitions--United States
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Union--Competitions
- - Disabled veterans--United States--History--19th century
Genre
- Data sets
Notes
- - “Dataset created 12/10/2020."--Version 1 README file.
- - “Dataset created: 2022-10-12."--Version 2 README file.
- - "Dataset created: 2024-05-09."--Version 3 README file.
- - Title devised by the cataloger
Medium
- 1 online resource (dataset)
Call Number/Physical Location
- Z43
Repository
- s-Online Electronic Resource
Digital Id
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2019667237_v3
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2019667237_v2
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2019667237
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019667237
Online Format
- compressed data