Inviting AI into the archives:The reception of handwritten recognition technology into historical manuscript transcription [PDF]
Archives and libraries are increasingly investing in mass-digitization, but until recently transcriptions of manuscripts were costly to generate. Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology is now transforming access to our written past, producing ...
Terras, Melissa
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Los modelos de HTR Silves1549_BNE y Spanish Gothic como herramientas de la labor ecdótica
Esta contribución informa de la aplicación a textos áureos impresos en letra gótica de dos modelos de transcripción automatizada realizados dentro de la plataforma Transkribus.
Giada Blasut
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The role of the library when computers can read:Critically adopting Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technologies to support research [PDF]
Computational approaches to processing and searching images of historical manuscripts by Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is one of the most promising machine learning approaches for academic research in the humanities, having the potential to ...
Terras, Melissa
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Handwritten Text Recognition Best Practice in the Beta maṣāḥǝft workflow
This contribution describes the workflow used to transcribe Manuscripts from the Ethiopian and Eritrean Tradition. The goal of the workflow is to obtain a TEI file with an initial text transcription that profits from a wealth of machine-generated ...
Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu
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The enhancement of the search-ability of OCRed Texts HTR+, segmentation and meta-dating early modern ordinances [PDF]
From May till November 2019, the KB National Library of the Netherlands (The Hague) hosts the Researcher-in-Residence project ‘Entangled Histories of Early Modern Ordinances’. This ‘short paper’-presentation reports on the ongoing project.
de Gruijter, Michel +2 more
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State of the Field: Digital History
Abstract Computing and the use of digital sources and resources is an everyday and essential practice in current academic scholarship. The present article gives a concise overview of approaches and methods within digital historical scholarship, focusing on the question ‘How have the digital humanities evolved and what has that evolution brought to ...
C. ANNEMIEKE ROMEIN +8 more
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Wellcome Library Transcribing Recipes Project: Final Report [PDF]
The Wellcome Library, in considering a project to digitise and transcribe recipe manuscripts using crowdsourcing technologies, commissioned this report from Ben Brumfield and Mia Ridge in Summer 2015. The report addresses issues specific to this project,
Ben Brumfield, Mia Ridge
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La base de datos COMEDIC. Catálogo de obras medievales impresas en castellano nace en 2012 con el objetivo de analizar la recepción y transmisión de los textos literarios medievales en la imprenta quinientista.
Nuria Aranda García
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Inteligencia artificial para la transcripción de letra itálica española del siglo XVIII
El propósito de este artículo es desarrollar un modelo de inteligencia artificial para la lectura y transcripción de escritura itálica manuscrita producida en el siglo XVIII español utilizando la plataforma Transkribus.
Jaime Bermudez Carreño
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Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence: Working with Born-Digital and Digitized Archival Collections [PDF]
Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences. Digitized collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars to develop new, data-rich methods.
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