Adjustments in both brightness and contrast were made to the seal image and a drop shadow added, once again using Adobe Photoshop 4.0, to create the image which appears on the main page. The background in the index and catalogue sections is a sample of the vellum upon which many of the documents in this collection were written. Vellum can be found in a range of colors from very light off-white to light brown. The vellum was once again used in the transcription page to provide a left border and as the base for the site specific navigation buttons. The navigation arrows in the catalogue section were found on a map of the time period.
Transcription involves reading the original manuscript and typing it into an electronic format.
The most important issue in transcription was to make certain that manuscripts were typed exactly as they appeared in the originals, including any abbreviations and misspellings. All transcription was done in Saint John at the Saint John Free Public Library. The core tag set was used together with the prose base tagset, tags for transcription and tables. Colonel Abraham would like you to visit. Each of the catalogue pages with thumbnails and document summaries were created with perl scripts that extracted summary information from each of the text files.