Zine Transcription Normalization for Austin Fanzine Project

The Austin Fanzine Project is an ongoing digitization project working towards providing the user with a historic snapshot of a volatile local subculture: the Austin underground music scene of the 1990's. Since its inception in 2012, the Austin Fanzine Project has expanded beyond its initial goals of fanzine digitization to providing enhanced user access and community involvement through the adoption of data visualization techniques, crowdsourced transcription and indexing efforts and, most recently, a collaboration with the Early Modern OCR Project. As my role in furthering these goals and streamlining crowdsourcing efforts, I created a set of transcription and indexing guidelines for users, so that resulting crowdsourced data is accurate, consistent, and true to the intent and feel of the original cultural material.