Itinera Nova and its volunteer program

our story

IN VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY

proud

contented

grateful

ITINERA NOVA

WHAT?Disclose the content of the registers of the Court of Aldermen of the City of Leuven

HOW ?Create a digital archive of the 1,128 registers (1362-1795) open for consultation

online

EASY?Huge undertaking

1,128 registers > 900,000 folios

FINANCINGFlanders, CERA and City of Leuven: Project Manager Inge Moris

Crowd sourcing: outsourcing to the crowd

DIGITAL VOLUNTEER

FACTS AND FIGURES

Numbers

35 volunteers

Age

20 up to 80

Gender involvement

11 female - 24 male

Background

Common character traits

Recruitment

JOB DESCRIPTIONS

PREPARING REGISTERS SCANNING

IMAGE EDITINGTRANSCRIBINGANNOTATING

PREPARING REGISTER

PREPARE each REGISTER for scanningTEARS

PAGE and FOLIO NUMBERING

DAMAGE DESCRIPTION

SCANNING

CONTROL OF SCANNED PAGES by P M

IMAGE EDITING

LINUXTIFF → USER COPIES

ONLINE FOR ITINERA NOVA WEBSITELONGTERM STORAGE

TRANSCRIPTION

30 VOLUNTEERS

NAMES OF TRANSCRIBER AND MODERATOR ON EACH ACT

‘LIVE’ PALEOGRAPHY COURSE

ONLINE TUTORIAL

ONLINE TRANSCRIPTION TOOL

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THE THREE CHAMBERS

ANNOTATION TOOL

LATIN TEXTSTRAINING

NEAR FUTURE

FEEDBACK - CORRECTION

PROJECT MANAGER & DIRECTORINGE MORIS & MARIKA CEUNEN

Training

Correction

Feedback

DIGITAL VOLUNTEER

Time and Space Independent

Member of an online archival community: NING

Member of an offline archival community

OFFLINE ARCHIVAL COMMUNITY

MEET-INs

TRAINING paleography, digital media, act reading, scanning …

PARTICIPATION in exhibitions, publications, cultural heritage day

in Grundtvig lifelong learning program of EU Commission

YEARLY TRIP

NEW YEAR DINNER

INFORMAL GET-TOGETHERS

WIN - WIN

CITY ARCHIVES

VOLUNTEER

SOCIETY

WIN- WIN CITY ARCHIVES

Better preservation of original registersresearchers can use the digital copies online instead of the originals

Content of registers is disclosed social and judicial history of Leuven and surroundings in its evolution

over 4 centuries

Exhibitions - publications

A lively and cheerful space

WIN-WIN VOLUNTEERS

CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMON GOOD

PERSONAL SATISFACTION

FRIENDSHIP

LIFELONG LEARNING computer skills, paleography, history

WITHOUT VOLUNTEERS NO ITINERA NOVA!

WITHOUT FEEDBACK NO VOLUNTEERS!

THANK YOU TO THE CITY OF LEUVEN FOR ITS BELIEF IN