Participate
There are lots of ways you can get involved in Dish by Dish. Our project thrives with the help of digital volunteers.
If you would like to help us by contributing an image of a menu, you can go to this post for suggestions.
To jump right in transcribing, you can go to the transcription portal at FromThePage here.
You can contribute in any language you feel comfortable in, and even partially on pages for the languages you know. We especially need citizen researchers who are good at typing Arabic!
Sample video and written tutorials:
- Getting your account at FromThePage -Getting Started with FromThePage
- How to transcribe in FromThePage
- How to flag a problem
- How to create metadata for your menus
- How to encode your transcriptions in tables (forthcoming)
- How to encode your transcriptions in tables (advanced)
- How to find our data (forthcoming)
- …