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9 months ago

Transcribing the personal album of Zoila Aurora Cáceres

How can a scrapbook full of notes, clippings or illustrations give us an insight into the social history of Latin American women writers? Looking at the scrapbook as more than ...
  • Zoila Aurora Cáceres
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10 months ago

Creating the Swedish Lion Ⅰ text recognition model

Simplicity, citizen engagement and AI-driven transcription were key factors that intrigued Olof Karsvall and the team at the Swedish National Archives when they discovered Transkribus. Olof Karsvall, Research Manager at ...
  • Swedish Lion I
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11 months ago

Navigating the Transcription of Dutch Prize Papers

Have you ever sent a letter that never arrived? From 1652-1815 the British navy and privateers seized all types of documents from enemy ships, ship logs, cargo lists and even ...
  • Dutch Prize Papers
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1 year ago

Uncovering the secrets of the Portuguese Inquisition with Hervé Baudry

“According to the inquisitorial rules in the past, everything had to remain secret.” To punish people accused of straying from the Christian belief, the Portuguese Inquisition conducted trials clouded in ...
  • TraPrInq
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1 year ago

Making 200 years of Bautzen’s city history accessible

In many cities, archives house rich collections of letters, books, diaries, minutes and other valuable artefacts. However, these sources of knowledge and information are often underused as they are either ...
  • Bautzen Ratsprotokolle
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1 year ago

From Script to Digital – Transforming Research for Ottoman Turkish Texts with Suphan Kirmizialtin

Working with historical documents written in Ottoman Turkish has long been a difficult task. Not only is it considered a ‘dead’ script today, but from accessibility to legibility, there are ...
  • Digital Ottoman Corpora
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2 years ago

Discovering a lost play by Lope de Vega: Álvaro Cuéllar

When Álvaro Cuéllar set out to transcribe a series of theatrical works from the Spanish Golden Age, he hoped he would find something interesting. But he did not expect to ...
  • Discovering a new play by Lope de Vega
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2 years ago

How the State Archives of Zurich published 50,000 pages with read&search

The State Archives of Zurich is the central archive for the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. They are responsible for storing and preserving documents from councils, courts, administrations, and many other ...
  • Zürcher Ratsmanuale 1700-1798
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2 years ago

How the ScanTent revolutionised scanning at the BnF

While Transkribus may be our most well-known product, it is only part of the READ-COOP eco-system. In fact, we have a range of different technologies, each designed for a different ...
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2 years ago

Creating a digital scholarly edition of the Lovelace papers with Jessica Cook

Mathematics, computing, music, poetry: Ada Lovelace was a person of many talents. The 19th-century mathematician — and daughter of infamous Romantic poet, Lord Byron — is widely regarded as one ...
  • The Lovelace papers
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2 years ago

Transcribing 3 million scans at the National Archives of the Netherlands

Some Transkribus projects are just a few pages long. Many are a few hundred or thousand pages long. But the latest Transkribus project at the National Archives of the Netherlands ...
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2 years ago

Uncovering the secret life of Karl Benedikt Hase with START Grant winner William Barton

If you’re a researcher in Austria, you may have heard of the prestigious START Grant. Run by the Austrian Science Fund or FWF, the grant is awarded each year to ...
  • William Barton
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2 years ago

“There should be no shame in using digital tools to make our lives easier”: Henning Schuler

Meet Henning Schuler. Henning is a historian specialising in modern intellectual and social history, who has just completed his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.  When Henning ...
  • Henning Schuler
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2 years ago

Creating a linguistic corpus with Transkribus: Ewa Rodek

Languages evolve over time: even first-year linguistics students could tell you that. But understanding how they evolve is slighty more challenging.   At the Institute of Polish Language – Polish Academy ...
  • Creating a linguistic corpus
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3 years ago

The Pandetta Project – Fondazione Banco di Napoli

The Fondazione Banco di Napoli preserves the Historical Archive of the Banco di Napoli, the largest complex of historical-economic documentation in the world. This enormous treasure of paper collects the ...
  • The Pandetta Project
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3 years ago

Recesses of Low German Hanseatic Days: A Hanseatic journey with Transkribus

Over the last 150 years, large edition series have shaped hanseatic research. Around 1900, a group of historians had collected and brought between book covers a vast amount of material ...
  • Rezesse niederdeutscher Städtetage
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3 years ago

Mapping Medieval Vienna: The digital edition of historical land registers supported by Transkribus

A central goal of the research project “Mapping Medieval Vienna” is to make the Viennese land registers of the 15th century available to the public. This is because the land ...
  • Mapping Medieval Vienna
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3 years ago

Nouvelle-France numérique: Collaboration and partnership arising from AI

Over the course of its history, the colony of New France covered large portions of North America. Its main center was in the city of Québec, which was then the ...
  • Nouvelle-France numérique
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3 years ago

How to make a complete collection accessible with Transkribus. A best-practice example from the Tyrolean State Archives

From the digitization with the ScanTent, to the use of artificial intelligence for the recognition of the handwritten forms through to the publication of the documents using read&search – with ...
  • Grundbuchblätter
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3 years ago

David Brown on Transkribus & the Beyond 2022 Project

My first encounter with Transkribus was driven by envy. In 2014 I helped to draft an unsuccessful Horizon 2020 proposal at Trinity College Dublin for a call that was won ...
  • David Brown
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4 years ago

Improved Text Recognition for Finnish Historical Newspapers with Transkribus

The National Library of Finland has reprocessed almost two million historical newspaper pages with the Transkribus automatic text recognition workflow in cooperation with READ-COOP. The greatly improved recognition results convinced ...
  • Finnish newspapers
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4 years ago

My READ/Transkribus Story: Tobias Hodel

In 2016 I joined the READ project for the state archives of Zurich. Within the large project, I became part of the dissemination working group and responsible for the alignment ...
  • Tobias Hodel
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4 years ago

Iurisprudentia – A Journey through Time

Legal history is a research field that focuses on the evolution of legal systems, and the reasons behind the implementation of different laws. Luckily for legal historians, law is also ...
  • Universität Zürich
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4 years ago

Transkribus Projects at the Vienna City Library

The Vienna City Library has already implemented three projects with Transkribus. Their first project was the Lehmann address books. All of Vienna’s main tenants from 1859 to 1942 are listed ...
  • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
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4 years ago

Amsterdam Notary Archives out of the dark

The largest, and richest, collection of documents kept inside the Amsterdam City Archives are no doubt the Notarial Archives, starting from 1578. It spans over 30.000 volumes and after 8,6 ...
  • Crowd Leert Computer Lezen
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4 years ago

Greifswald: Making legal sources from 1580 to 1880 accessible

The aim of the Greifswald project is the complete digitization and full-text indexing of the verdict files of the Greifswald Faculty of Law, namely the statement of reasons for the ...
  • Rechtsprechung im Ostseeraum
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4 years ago

REPUBLIC: The resolutions of the States-General of the Dutch Republic (1576-1796)

The project REPUBLIC aims to create a searchable online edition of the resolutions of the States-General of the Dutch Republic (1576-1796). This federal assembly, in which each of the seven ...
  • REPUBLIC Project
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4 years ago

Transkribus at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

Digital Publications are the latest addition to the DH Lab of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (https://www.biblhertz.it), and the goal is to to ...
  • Bibliotheca Hertziana
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