Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition : Transkribus as a case study
Objekt
Titel
Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition : Transkribus as a case study
Journal of Documentation
Urheber
Guenter Muehlberger
Louise Seaward
Melissa Terras
Sofia Ares Oliveira
Vicente Bosch
Maximilian Bryan
Sebastian Colutto
Hervé Déjean
Markus Diem
Stefan Fiel
Basilis Gatos
Albert Greinoecker
Tobias Grüning
Guenter Hackl
Vili Haukkovaara
Gerhard Heyer
Lauri Hirvonen
Tobias Hodel
Matti Jokinen
Philip Kahle
Mario Kallio
Frederic Kaplan
Florian Kleber
Roger Labahn
Eva Maria Lang
Sören Laube
Gundram Leifert
Georgios Louloudis
Rory McNicholl
Jean-Luc Meunier
Johannes Michael
Elena Mühlbauer
Nathanael Philipp
Ioannis Pratikakis
Joan Puigcerver Pérez
Hannelore Putz
George Retsinas
Verónica Romero
Robert Sablatnig
Joan Andreu Sánchez
Philip Schofield
Giorgos Sfikas
Christian Sieber
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos
Tobias Strauss
Tamara Terbul
Alejandro Héctor Toselli
Berthold Ulreich
Mauricio Villegas
Enrique Vidal
Johanna Walcher
Max Weidemann
Herbert Wurster
Konstantinos Zagoris
Zusammenfassung
Purpose: An overview of the current use of handwritten text recognition (HTR) on archival manuscript material, as provided by the EU H2020 funded Transkribus platform. It explains HTR, demonstrates Transkribus, gives examples of use cases, highlights the affect HTR may have on scholarship, and evidences this turning point of the advanced use of digitised heritage content. The paper aims to discuss these issues. - Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts a case study approach, using the development and delivery of the one openly available HTR platform for manuscript material. - Findings: Transkribus has demonstrated that HTR is now a useable technology that can be employed in conjunction with mass digitisation to generate accurate transcripts of archival material. Use cases are demonstrated, and a cooperative model is suggested as a way to ensure sustainability and scaling of the platform. However, funding and resourcing issues are identified. - Research limitations/implications: The paper presents results from projects: further user studies could be undertaken involving interviews, surveys, etc. - Practical implications: Only HTR provided via Transkribus is covered: however, this is the only publicly available platform for HTR on individual collections of historical documents at time of writing and it represents the current state-of-the-art in this field. - Social implications: The increased access to information contained within historical texts has the potential to be transformational for both institutions and individuals. - Originality/value: This is the first published overview of how HTR is used by a wide archival studies community, reporting and showcasing current application of handwriting technology in the cultural heritage sector.
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ahead-of
issue
ahead-of-p
Seiten
Epub ahead of print
Datum
2019/07/24
Sprache
eng
doi
10.1108/jd-07-2018-0114
issn
0022-0418
Kurztitel
Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
