Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: New website features & Olmsted challenge update

By the People Bulletin

 

By the People releases website design changes & new features!

We’ve released some new features to By the People! We’ve been hard at work over the last few months on some design changes to existing pages and a brand new feature that will allow you to adjust images to aid transcription. Try out the new filters in the image viewer that will help you transcribe very light or dark pages. We've also updated the design of the profile page, campaign browse page, and individual campaign landing pages. Note: If you aren't seeing data on your updated profile page, try making a contribution (review or transcribe) and then refreshing the page. Read more about the changes here and let us know what you think!  

By the People is powered by the open source software Concordia, developed in-house at the Library of Congress. Huge thanks to the wonderful Concordia development team for their hard work on these features and other behind-the-scenes updates to keep Library of Congress transcription running smoothly!

Frederick Law Olmsted challenge: we're almost there

Volunteers have worked on 839 transcriptions in the Frederick Law Olmsted campaign over the last two weeks! Which means we're getting closer and closer to finishing up all of the pages not started and in progress in the campaign by the end of the December. Join us in celebrating the end of 2022 and the end of Frederick Law Olmsted's bicentennial year by transcribing his collection. 

Challenge spotlight: Parks in Rochester, NY 

Rochester, NY is one of a handful of American cities where Frederick Law Olmsted designed not just one park but an entire system. The City of Rochester created a parks commission in 1888 after receiving a sizable land donation. At the suggestion of the parks commission in neighboring Buffalo, Rochester commissioners hired Olmsted and his firm to design a park system on the available land.  Olmsted's design emphasized the importance of the Genesee River, creating a series of parks along its banks. You can still see his influences on Highland Park, Seneca Park, and Genesee Valley Park.

Help finish transcribing Olmsted's Rochester files!

 

Warmly,

Abby & the By the People team