I am extracting information from transcriptions of Family 13 in Mark, plus some other mss. So far I have covered only one chapter but have found a number of minor transcription errors. I assume I cannot access the data to correct these myself. To whom can I report them? Many of them are omission of hyphens at the end of lines. One is an error in indexing a page. These cause me some difficulty as I am trying to extract the information digitally and the program takes the data as offered literally whereas a human would probably pass over them unnoticed. Geoff Farthing 13 Feb 2018.

Hi Peter,

While we would love to hear about any errors in transcriptions, you can proceed to correct the transcription yourself for your own purposes.

To do this, click on the "Transcribing" page of the VMR.  Load your manuscript and select the page which has the issue.

In the transcription editor, click the [Version History] button and from the history, select the PUBLISHED transcription.

The editor will load with the published transcription and allow you to correct the errors you find.  Once you are finished correcting, you can click the [Save] icon near the top of the editor and it will save the transcription as your own.  It will not update the published transcription.

When using the API to programmatically export data from the VMR, there typically is an option that you can set, e.g., preferUser=farthing  This will use your own verse transcriptions when they exist, over any published transcriptions.

I hope this helps.  Please don't hesitate to ask any questions you might have.

Best wishes,

Troy

Many thanks. I can do this easily enough for myself but my thoughts are whether in the future others will read this data digitally and be tripped by the same small points. Thanks again. Geoff.