IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 139: The Digital Scribe: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) of Medieval Documents
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Project 'Recognition & Enrichment of Archival Documents' (READ) |
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| Organiser: | Tobias Hodel, Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich |
| Moderator/Chair: | Johanna Green, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow |
| Paper 139-a | From Memoria to the Memory of the Turning Points of Life: Matricula-Online and HTR (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 139-b | Transkribus and the Archives of a Brigittine Monastery: Making Digital Editions of Naantali Documents (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 139-c | Sending 15th-Century Missives through Algorithms: Testing and Evaluating HTR with 2,200 Documents (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Transcriptions and editions are still mostly produced by human effort but advances in automatic layout analysis and text recognition can enable researchers to work with medieval sources in new ways. This panel will showcase the Transkribus transcription tool, which makes it possible for users to automatically transcribe and search digital images of handwritten historical documents. The panel will demonstrate how this technology has been applied to different sets of medieval documents: from 15th-century missives in early modern German to sacramental registers and Brigittine charters. This new technology promises to facilitate transcription and research for scholars, archivists, and the public. |