Skills Portfolio Evidence

Skill Set: Transcription & Proofreading

by Mike Bright

Introduction

The following pages show computer screenshots taken from various websites that demonstrate my participation in an action that benefitted a worthy cause.

The actions enabled me to build up my transcription and proofreading skills using a variety of techniques that contributed to projects that requested the involvement of volunteers to assist researchers / initiatives towards their project goals.

My name

Time of completed action

Evidence ofaction completed

(Displays quantity of pages I proofread using an OCR copy of a scanned image of a single page

from a public domain book)

Action source: http://www.pgdp.net/c

My name

Time of completed action

Evidence ofaction completed

(Displays quantity of pages I proofread using an OCR copy of a scanned image of a single page

from a public domain book)

Action source: http://www.pgdp.net/c

Time of completed action

Evidence ofaction completed(The image shows a selection of papyri. The highlighted papyri is the one I transcribed, where the

adjacent black dialog box displays the number of

transcripted Greek symbols I was able to decipher. It also

shows the number of measurements I had to make about the size of the papyri

fragment)

My name(My name isn’t displayed on this

action, as I had to login on another website called

Zooniverse, to participate)

Action source: http://ancientlives.org/

Time of completed action

Evidence ofaction completed(The image shows a selection of papyri. The highlighted papyri is the one I transcribed, where the

adjacent black dialog box displays the number of

transcripted Greek symbols I was able to decipher. It also

shows the number of measurements I had to make about the size of the papyri

fragment)

My name(My name isn’t displayed on this

action, as I had to login on another website called

Zooniverse, to participate)

Action source: http://ancientlives.org/

The End!