An alternative to the undergraduate research paper: Online Exhibitions with ArtSteps
The release of a public version of OpenAI’s generative AI platform, Chat GPT, at the end of last year has…
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Nota Bene: Software for Academic Composition
Publishing. It’s one of the most important parts of research in academia. Yet not many programs cater to the specific…
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eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 2) Although we initially thought that the Ethiopian community would find something to satisfy its curiosity, it was clear…
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position…
New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App
The H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies (CNTTS) is involved in several projects in the field of…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 1) For my first post here on African studies and the use of digital tools, I’ll talk about my…
Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations
In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model…
Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER
Since joining the ERC-funded project, The Dawn of Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism (11th-13th C.)(TibSchol),1 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in…
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READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem
The ‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’ (or ‘READ‘) is an ecosystem of open-source tools and platforms for the creation of…