A transcriber does not edit text

[Michelle Barney]

Hello,

I am submitting this question from one of my Units.

For Ask the Experts: Formats 1.1.4 states "A transcriber does not edit text." The UEB Instruction Manual seems to agree with this in 20.8 Editing. However, it goes on to further describe what "editing" is (changing punctuation, capitalization, hyphenation, etc.) and then state that when print error occur, transcribers should correct them. Does this apply only to the manuscript or to all transcription projects. For example, I am transcribing a chemistry book. In the same paragraph, it spells "tellurium" correctly two times and spells it as "tellerium" once. This is clearly a print error. Should this be corrected per Formats/Rules? If print errors should indeed be corrected, could you please elaborate on what should be corrected and what should not? Thank you

[Charles Mize]

I am not familiar with the new LOC course book, but that is a course book, not a code book.

This is a great question. Transcribers often struggle with this. We hate to braille something that we feel is an error in print.

However, transcribers do not change/edit any spelling that occurs in the print text. Always follow print for spelling.

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