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Catherine Hutton's Travel Diary (1779)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 47-70, March 2025.
Abstract The only diary the author Catherine Hutton (1756–1846) is known to have kept is her travel diary, written in 1779 at the age of 23, in which she describes staying with various members of her extended family and friends while travelling around the Midlands.
Anna Baula, Mark Philp
wiley   +1 more source

From Manuscript to Metadata: experiments on Handwritten Text Recognition, Tagging and Importation for the Memoriali series (1265-1452)

open access: yesJLIS.it
The paper describes the experiment of creating a tailored tagging system for the Memoriali – a series of notarial records produced in Bologna almost uninterruptedly between the second half of the 13th and first half of the 15th century – using the ...
Edward Loss   +2 more
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Optical Recognition Assisted Transcription with Transkribus: The Experiment concerning Eugène Wilhelm's Personal Diary (1885-1951) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2020
This article proposes use the Transkribus software to report on a "user experiment" in a French-speaking context. It is based on the semi-automated transcription project using the diary of the jurist Eugène Wilhelm (1866-1951).
Régis Schlagdenhauffen
doaj   +1 more source

Automation of historical weather data rescue

open access: yesGeoscience Data Journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2025.
Data rescuers worldwide have been trying to automate the retrieval of millions of handwritten weather historical records. We propose a workflow that uses artificial intelligence to automate these handwritten observations. The workflow is tested using the historical climate records from the Data Rescue: Archives and Weather project. We hope the workflow
Y. Zhang, R. E. Sieber
wiley   +1 more source

For a Digital History of pandemics. Interconnection and multidisciplinary perspectives

open access: yesUmanistica Digitale, 2021
In an increasingly interconnected reality, the areas of research look - necessarily - at a remodelling of the IT architectures of archival portals, with the aim of an interdisciplinary vision capable of connecting the Present with the Past, in order to ...
Salvatore Spina
doaj   +1 more source

On automating editions:The affordances of Handwritten Text Recognition platforms for scholarly editing [PDF]

open access: yes
Recent developments in Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) mean that automated editions – presentational editions generated from both digital images of text, and their corresponding transcriptions created by artificial intelligence – are now available to ...
Ames, Sarah   +5 more
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The implications of handwritten text recognition for accessing the past at scale [PDF]

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Before Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), manuscripts were costly to convert to machine-processable text for research and analysis. With HTR now achieving high levels of accuracy, we ask what near-future behaviour, interaction, experience, values and ...
Gooding, Paul   +2 more
core   +1 more source

La Inteligencia Artificial al rescate del Siglo de Oro: transcripción y modernización automática de mil trescientos impresos y manuscritos teatrales

open access: yesHipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro, 2023
Un elevado porcentaje de impresos y manuscritos teatrales del periodo aurisecular no ha sido nunca transcrito en un formato analógico ni, por supuesto, digital. Es imposible, por tanto, emplear estos documentos para realizar búsquedas de nuestro interés
Álvaro Cuéllar
doaj   +1 more source

Towards the Corpus of Latvian Romani Texts : Deciphering the Manuscripts in Jānis Leimanis' Archive [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Latvian Romani is a Northeastern Romani dialect with a limited number of publicly available sources.
Kozhanov, Kirill, Perkova, Natalia
core  

Plantae tinctoriae: The 1759 Dissertation on Dye Plants by Engelbert Jörlin

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
In the late 1750s, the Swedish botanist Engelbert Jörlin (1733–1810), one of Carl Linnaeus’ students wrote his dissertation Plantae tinctoriae on more than one hundred dye plants.
Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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