ZEBRA CROSSING

Curating and Digitalizing a 1000 Print Media Articles

“The source material we try to curate is ‘Zebra Crossing’ — a Sunday column carried by The Indian Express for 20 years. That means a 1,000 articles! This is as eye-boggling as it is mind-boggling.”
STELLA DENVER
(TEAM ZC)

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WORKFLOW / 01

First things first, and that means…

Curating ‘Zebra Crossing’ articles (hundreds of them) from typescripts or print media, which calls for Optical Character Recognition in some instances. our content curation process is supervised by…

Badi’ Al-Zaman
Madhubala Johar
Wanya Petrov
WORKFLOW / 02

Let all topics step into the present

This tenacious workflow involves adding the latest available information and/or making corrections prompted by recent research. Updates directly relate to article topics. This section is supervised by…

Blaise Ruvier
Naomi Heilbronn
Stella Denver
WORKFLOW / 03

Personal notes from
the backend

Impressons of coders and and editors (the backend team, figuratively called “the invisible hands”) — Personal feelings, ideas and thoughts not directly related to article topics. This section is supervised by…

Insu Byeon
Oliver D. Hagen
Ritu Chatterji
What’s in name!

A shortcut across the information highway

Rad conceived Zebra Crossing as a shortcut across the information highway — at a time when dial-up was the only internet option, even for privileged users. Right now, a host of ResearchGate (RG) scholars contend that it holds an encyclopedic scope, and they are unofficially backing us in this endeavour.

WE ARE FOLLOWED BY RESEARCHERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

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Team Members (a constant)

80+

Researchers in Touch With Us

1000

Articles to be Digitalized

70%

Our Access to Source Material

CURATED ARTICLES AT RANDOM