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Crowdsourced Transcriptions

Started by k42s, September 18, 2024, 12:37:14 PM

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k42s

Does anyone have experience with online transcription projects of public-domain Catholic texts? Many websites like New Advent, Sensus Fidelium, CatholicSaints.mobi and eCatholic2000 have HTML or EPUB versions of old texts, but the raw sources are not always referenced. I'm aware of two websites that do what I'm referring to:


I'd love to hear of more examples of this (or of more people willing to volunteer), as it brings facsimiles of great Catholic works to a format that's highly readable on web browsers, e-readers and TTS services.

Geremia

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I think New Advent is sourced from CCEL.
See Theological Markup Language (ThML).