Thank you for helping us transcribe our DVDs.

You do not have to be a techie. All you need to do is
use a browser to access our museum app, be able to edit
a Word document, and enjoy working with others.

1. First, use your browser at museum.carolinehistory.online
   and register as a user with username and email address. and of
   course a password. Note: to register, there are 2 checkoff
   boxes that MUST be checked.

2. Next you will be emailed a confirmation email and be given
   permissions to edit dvd documents.

3 .Our museum app is a forum based app. there are categories
and topics. as a registered user, you can view certain
categories/ topics. you will be sent an email selecting the
dvd category/ topic/ word file to edit.

4. Here is the simple part. select the item to edit and
   download to your laptop. the file location on your laptop
   is up to you.

couple notes to help on this since it may be confusing.
first, you are DOWNLOADING a copy of the file to your laptop.
you will NOT be using the museum app to do edits. Second,
where files are downloaded on your laptop depends on how
you use your laptop. When it comes time to submit your
updated file, you will use the museum app to upload.

The firefox/ chrome/ opera/ edge browser behave differently
for downloading files. Once downloaded, its up to
you to edit the docx or doc file.

5. The file name convention is a simple one. each file has a frozen
   prefix portion and free portion. dont mess with the frozen part.
   you will see a _00.docx as part of the file name. the frozen part is to
   everything before _00.

the 00 stands for the original/ raw file. you should change the number
by +1 when you make substantial edits.

after the 00 and before the '.', you may add whatever as part of the
name. ex:" -my first one".

6. If you want to give an explanation or comment, use the Reply feature
   of the system. Not only can you give a comment, you can even upload
   the file. the Reply is your chatbox.

A super nice feature in our museum app is the ' Not Watching' switch. When its
turned on to "Watching" you will get an email if there any changes.
You do NOT have to call or email for attention.

Note: you can reply to this Howto if things are unclear
or can be made better.

What are we hoping to end up with?

The transcripts are taken from videos of speeches given at
various events over the years. They are produced by Artificial
Intelligence which picks up all the sounds made during the speech,
There are plenty of "um's" and "uhs" that we want removed,along
with extraneous punctuation.

Also, sometimes,the speaker makes an obvious error that you may
detect from the general context of the speech. Please fix
those as well. If something appears incorrect, but the fix is
not obvious, leave it as is. Hopefully, a knowledgeable person
will read the results and make further edits.

We hope to have a coherent written document, so that people
can read it.