Delighted to announce that the paper on best practices in pre- and post-ATR for historical research that I co-authored with @koen_hufkens is now available on Zenodo:
https://zenodo.org/records/15703825
Big thanks to @hermes_datenkompetenzzentrum for funding our initial workshop at @DHLab_IEG earlier this year. It was nice to present our findings to a larger, international community at #dae2025 in Göttingen. #histodons #digitalhumanities #ocr #htr
The model works if it gets the errors right.
#britishlibrary RSE Saira Akhter just blogged with reflections from the IIIF Annual Conference 2025 - including some @universalviewer goodies and #IIIF implemented with #OCR #HTR workflows https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2025/06/reflections-from-the-iiif-annual-conference-2025.html @BL_DigiSchol
Neuer Beitrag! Julian Helmchen - Die Digitalisierung der spätmittelalterlichen Grundbücher Wiens mit #Transkribus! #htr #histodons #medievodons #auxhist #dighum https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/36671
In light of current news coming out of UK, a repost:
@SafeguardingResearch has torrents of #trans (healthcare) related resources on SciOp:
https://sciop.net/tags/trans
Those are all webarchives, easily offline/locally re-playable via https://replayweb.page/
Re torrenting:
https://sciop.net/docs/using/torrenting/
Most of them come from a list originally made by @dee; mostly webarchived by @ashley
#ProtectTransLives #HTR
Circling back to the starting point of @SafeguardingResearch, there are now torrents of #trans healthcare related resources on SciOp:
https://sciop.net/tags/trans
Those are all webarchives, easily offline/locally re-playable via https://replayweb.page/
Re torrenting:
https://sciop.net/docs/using/torrenting/
Most of them come from a list originally made by @dee; mostly webarchived by @ashley
#ProtectTransLives #HTR
#AppelàParticipation TranscriboQuest, un transcribathon de formation intensive en #HTR et transcription de textes
🗓️ 3-5 septembre 2025
📍ENS de Lyon, site Descartes
📝 Candidature avant le 30 mai !
i was asked at work about machine learning handwriting recognition tools/apps, preferably something that you can train on your own handwriting.
the use case is digitalising handwritten paper notes, so scanning them in and then transforming it into somewhat formatted text.
i tried apples text recognition and it works well, but still makes a lot of mistakes and doesn’t really do any formatting.
anyone can recommend apps or have any experience with this?
A bit depressing how often university research projects doing HTR are unwilling to share their training data with a public agency who wants to combine it with other training data and create an openly licensed HTR-model. To me it seems contrary to an Open Science-ethos, a waste of effort, and be counter-productive to future research.
(Sorry if this comes off as a gripe.)
Ahead of Print in BFP: New article: Digitale Erschließung historischer Bibliotheken. The Bibliotheca Eugeniana Digital project applies digital humanities to explore a major Baroque book collection. #DigitalHumanities #HistoricalBooks #MachineLearning #HTR #Visualization
Very happy to have Heleen Wilbrink and Annelot Vijn from Utrecht Archives in our (online) Journal Club today taking about recent projects related to Records in Context (RiC-O) and Persons in Context ontologies as well as on transkribus-based HTR, LLM-based post processing and information extraction.
#archives @epoz @tabea @AnnaJacyszyn @heikef @enorouzi @joerg @sourisnumerique @GenAsefa #ontologies #semanticweb #lod #dh #culturalheritage #htr #transkribus #llms #journalclub
📣 #CfA: Bis 23. April für den zweitägigen Cross-NFDI-Graduiertenworkshop 'Schriftkulturen des Mittelalters in digitaler Perspektive' bewerben! Impulsvorträge & Hands-on-Übungen zu Themen wie #forschungsdatenmanagement, #HTR, digitale Plattformen & #Materialanalyse.
22./23. August 2025 an der @stabi_berlin. Alle Informationen 👉 https://sbb.berlin/29bt8
#manuscripts #digitalhumanities #medievalsky #dh #handschriften #summerschool
This week, our colleague @epoz@blog.epoz.org was attending a digitization project end conference at Utrecht Archief with lots of Linked Data presentations
@epoz@mastodon.nl #digitalization #archives #utrecht @utrechtuniversity @fiz_karlsruhe #linkeddata #lod #knowledgegraphs #htr #ocr #transkribus
The model works if it gets the errors right.
Interessanter Beitrag im aktuellen Heft ARCHIV. theorie & praxis (ab Juni online) über "Das Digitalisat als Datenquelle. Ein Workflow für die Nutzung bereits digitalisierter Archivbestände".
PERO OCR kannte ich noch nicht.
#ATR #HTR
https://www.archive.nrw.de/landesarchiv-nrw/ueber-uns/archiv-theorie-praxis
I am very excited to share that I started my PostDoc at Stockholm University this week!
Looking forward to working on layout analysis and handwritten text recognition for rare and unknown scripts, as part of the recently started DESCRYPT project, led by Beáta Megyesi!
auden_05 #Transkribus #HTR model for the handwriting in pen (English and German) of British-American poet #WHAuden in the period 1957-1973.
We're getting there. 💪
We've launched an updated version of our HTRFlow demo-app on HuggingFace.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Riksarkivet/htr_demo
Try it out and give us your feedback!
There are lots of architectural updates under the hood, making it easier for us to maintain the app and add new capabilities like support for Pylaia-models. It's now basically a client to our HTR/OCR-pipeline software HTRFlow Core.
