Site catalogue transcription from Magic Mountain

An application for transcription of PDF site catalogue files from excavations at Magic Mountain on behalf of Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

This application has four files:

• template.html: the view for every task and deal with the data of the answers.
• tutorial.html: a simple tutorial for the volunteers.
• project.json: the setup metadata (make sure name and short name are unique, or create will fail.)
• long_description.md: the long description for the app.

Creating the application

You need to use the PBS command line interface for creating and updating the project.

• Create an account in PyBossa
• Copy from your account profile your API-KEY
• Navigate to your home directory and create a file called .pybossa.cfg
• Within this file add following lines:

   [default]
   server: http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org
   apikey: API-KEY

• Now clone the code to your server and change directory into the folder:

   $ git clone https://github.com/MicroPasts/egyptExplorationSociety.git applicationName
   $ cd applicationName

• Now run:

   $ pbs create_project

• This should have created the project.
• If the long description has not appeared, then run the update project command as shown below

Documentation

We recommend that you read the section: Build with PyBossa and follow the step by step tutorial.

Updating template

After making changes to your source code and committing to github do the following:

• Clone or pull changes from repo to your server and then issue this command:

    $ pbs update_project

• Template should update

Adding tasks to project

Import the file names via the CSV importer.

Change redundancy of tasks

To update all of them:

    $ pbs update-task-redundancy --redundancy 3

LICENSE

Please, see the COPYING file.

Acknowledgments

This application is on behalf of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as part of Michele Koons' work for the Michigan State University Digital Archaeology Institute