From their website:

TypeWright is a tool for correcting the text-version of a document made up of page images. These text-versions are crucially necessary: they are what enables full-text searching, datamining, preserving, and curating texts of historical importance. Right now, the text running behind the page images of these texts has been mechanically typed, leaving behind errors that need to be corrected by human eyes and hands.

TypeWright recently enabled group editing, to find out more check out this blog post from May 2014.

Questions and Answers about ENG260/360’s use of the software:

1.) How would a user receive the copies once they’ve completed correcting a text? How long does it take to receive the copies?

Once a user is finished completing a document, they will see a “Mark Document Complete” button on the last page of this document in the TypeWright editing interface. This button must be clicked by the user in order to receive plain text or XML files for the corrected document. When the user clicks this button, it closes the document to further edits and informs the 18thConnect team that a document is ready for evaluation. Though we contact the user immediately (if the document is completed during office hours) to let them know that evaluation has begun, the evaluation process takes from 2-5 days. If a document is judged sufficiently corrected, we then release the plain text and/or XML of that document to the user via email. Overall, the user usually receives plain text or XML files within one business week of marking the document correct.

2.) What state is the TEI encoded text in? Would the user be able to add annotations to the document?

The TEI file generated by TypeWright is saved as a .xml file and can be edited via any XML editing tool. The encoding is very light, marking only paragraphs and pages and including a header with information about the document source and history. Users are encouraged to add further TEI markup or annotations to the document, as they see fit, when creating a digital edition. We have recently allowed a specific subset of TEI elements for use in the TypeWright editing interface, and more information can be found here.

3.) Would ProQuest and GALE allow a corrected document to be placed on our University’s Commons on our website?

This is exactly what our contract with Gale-Cengage allows. If a user corrects a ECCO document, and that correction passes our evaluation process, then the user is allowed to publish that document as a digital edition, or use it for other digital project needs.

4.)In order to make a digital edition or submit the document for review, would the user need to correct the TEI encoding? Would annotations be expected for a document to be submitted for peer review?

To receive the plain text and/or XML of a document, in order to make a digital edition, the user needs only to correct the document in TypeWright, and mark the document complete. Information about submitting to peer review can be found on the 18thConnect site here. Annotations, specifically, are not required for submitting to peer review, but it may help to look at other aggregated projects and digital editions on the 18thConnect site to help prepare a digital edition for review.

5.) How would the user submit the document for peer review? How long does the peer review process take?

Information about submitting a digital edition or project to 18thConnect peer review can be found here. Pay close attention to the “Application for Peer Review” link in the first paragraph of the page. The peer review process can take anywhere from 1-5 months, on average, depending upon the availability of reviewers on our editorial board and the scope of the submitted project.