+Transkribus e le frontiere dell’analisi elettronica dei testi
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Recently an interview on the experience with Transkribus has been publicised by the Gramsci centre for the humanities and the University of San Marino. A model for the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci has been created, Massimo Mastrogregori of the Gramsci centre for the humanities has been working on this. You can check out the […]
+ Videos on Keyword and Full-Text search interfaces
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Want to know, what a searching interface based on Transkribus can look like? We have two new demo videos available on that in our Youtube-channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/TranskribusEU) showing two projects, which have been carried out with the goal to make historical documents searchable by special words and phrases. One video shows the Finnish Court Records of […]
+ readme2020: crowdsourcing for the recognition of modern handwritings
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Many models on different languages of various epochs have been trained in Transkribus already. What we are still missing is a general model, which can recognise a wide range of modern handwritings. We have set ourselves the goal to provide such a model to our users in near future: a big and robust model, that […]
+ Widecombe Parish Devon UK: Investigating Local Welfare Provision
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This project was set up to investigate the local parish records of Devon, some of which date back to the 16th century but the majority of which are 18 and 19th century. These records are largely about the raising of local taxes and then spending the money raised for the upkeep of the church and […]
+ Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for damaged archives
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We would like to inform you about an article written by Marco Roling, which has been published in March 2020 and is dedicated to experiments about the HTR-processing of documents with low standard of preservation and legibility. The tests have been carried out on documents with different levels of archival damage in order to check, […]
+ Deciphering the letters of Andrej Kmet’ with the help of Transkribus
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In the article with the title “Automated Transcription of Handwritten Text: READ and TRANSKRIBUS (An Experiment with Transcribing Letters of Andrej Kmeť)”, which was published in October 2019, Dusan Katuscak describes his experience with Transkribus when working on the transcription of the handwritten letters of Andrej Kmet’. Additionally, a brief description of the Transkribus workflow […]
+ Train the trainers in Innsbruck
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We from the Transkribus-team keep noticing interest amongst ambitioned users of Transkribus in giving Transkribus-workshops and this way share their knowledge. In order to provide these people with the latest information on Transkribus features, we plan to offer a trainer seminar in Innsbruck. The seminar is currently planned from Tuesday 15th of September until Thursday […]
+ Proudly presenting the Dutch giant
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This is what comes out, when two Transkribus power user archives, namely the Amsterdam City Archives and the National Archives of the Netherlands work together: a model with 1 384 893 words of training data, in this case reading 18th century Dutch. The model is available to all Transkribus users now and can be found under the […]
+ Scanathon at the University Archive Greifswald
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We are happy to report about the Scanathon, which took place at the University of Greifswald as part of their open house day on Saturday, 7th of March 2020. The event was also connected to the German Archives Day (by the Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare) and besides the Scanathon itself, mini-workshops had been organised, […]
+ Transkribus User Conference 2020 – we keep transcribing as READ-COOP
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On 6-7 February 2020 the third Transkribus User Conference took place at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Innsbruck. 160 Transkribus users made their way to the snowy town of Innsbruck, which had been the conference’s venue for the first time. Thanks to the great input of our invited speakers we managed to offer a […]
