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Software, E-Resource Transcription datasets from the Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence, Manuscript Division By the People transcription campaign title : This Hell-upon-earth of a prison : Samuel J. Gibson's Andersonville Diary

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Title

  • Transcription datasets from the Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence, Manuscript Division

Other Title

  • By the People transcription campaign title : This Hell-upon-earth of a prison : Samuel J. Gibson's Andersonville Diary

Summary

  • This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 90 images from the Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign, "This Hell-upon-earth of a Prison": Samuel J. Gibson's Andersonville Diary. 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.
  • This dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign "This Hell-upon-earth of a Prison": Samuel J. Gibson's Andersonville Diary (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/hell-upon-earth/). The campaign consisted of all then available online images of digitized content from the Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000053) transcribed in their entirety. The Gibson collection consists of a diary kept by Gibson (1833-1878) in 1864 while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, and a letter to his wife while held as a prisoner at Camp Sumter in Georgia, the Confederate prisoner of war camp commonly known as Andersonville Prison. See the Gibson Papers digital collection for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information, such as a timeline and bibliographic resources.
  • 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 2022-10-22 to include a revised README and tags data in the CSV. Both .CSV files are direct exports of the “This Hell-upon-earth of a Prison” campaign.
  • Version 2, description of contents: This dataset includes 2019667238_v2.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file. hell-upon-earth_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. hell-upon-earth-gibson_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

  • Gibson, Samuel J., 1833-1878
  • By the People (Program), compiler

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2020-2022.

Headings

  • -  Gibson, Samuel J.,--1833-1878--Diaries
  • -  United States.--Army.--Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 103rd (1861-1865).--Company B.--Diaries
  • -  Andersonville Prison
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Dataset created 12/10/2020."--Version 1 README file.
  • -  "Dataset created: 2022-10-12."--Version 2 README file.
  • -  Title devised by the cataloger

Medium

  • Online resource (dataset)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E612.A5

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019667238

Online Format

  • compressed data

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Chicago citation style:

Gibson, Samuel J. Transcription datasets from the Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence, Manuscript Division. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, to 2022, 2020. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019667238/.

APA citation style:

Gibson, S. J. (2020) Transcription datasets from the Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence, Manuscript Division. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, to 2022. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019667238/.

MLA citation style:

Gibson, Samuel J. Transcription datasets from the Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence, Manuscript Division. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, to 2022, 2020. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019667238/>.