Vienna, 16 June 2015
The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) starts its DH - Tool Gallery:
Today, the automated recognition of handwritten documents is no longer a vision, but a real option. For humanities scholars, archivists and librarians this situation will offer new chances. Modern software is not only able to create automated transcriptions of handwritten or early printed documents, it also provides new ways to search the content in a previously unknown way. Moreover the new technology allows to match image and text on a detailed level which will encourage the involvement of volunteers ("Citizen Science"). In order to make the technology available to all user groups but also to benefit from various synergies, the prototype of a collaborative transcription and recognition platform (TRANSKRIBUS) will be introduced and can be explored.
The event addresses humanities scholars who are involved in the transcription of historical documents, but also archives and libraries who want to provide their users with a powerful virtual research environment to work with their documents.
Please bring your own laptop to the workshop.
ACDH Tool Galleries are free and open to all. Registration closed.
10.30-12.30 Part 1 - Presentations
12.30-13.30 Lunch at the Aula of the ÖAW
13.30-15.30 Part 2: Workshop - Hands on
Participants will receive detailed explanations on the various tools and demonstrators developed within the project and also be able to try them out on their own laptops.
Introduction
The event is organised in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck, Digitisation and Digital Preservation group und the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities. It is co-financed by the European Commission, FP7 Programme for Research and Development.
16 June 2015 – 10:30 to 15:30
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Sitzungssaal
1010 Vienna