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#automatictextrecognition — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #automatictextrecognition, aggregated by home.social.

  1. British Library Digital Scholarship Blog: Automatic Text Recognition in Cultural Heritage Institutions survey: a brief analysis and a published dataset. “A few months ago, we circulated a brief survey to understand how other institutions use Automatic Text Recognition and to discuss the creation of a working group on the subject… I am happy to report that the anonymised data are available […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/automatic-text-recognition-in-cultural-heritage-institutions-survey-a-brief-analysis-and-a-published-dataset-british-library-digital-scholarship-blog/

  2. Today, I will present our progress w/ the bilingual #DigitalScholarlyEdition of the #Danish #EthicaComplementoria prints from 1674 + 1678!
    I'm happy to be invited to speak for the #Bookhistory research group at #UniOslo.
    We've successfully transcribed & tagged 600+ pages (using #Transkribus for #AutomaticTextRecognition helped tremendously!) & are about to map them onto the #DeutschesTextarchiv #DTA base format. We'll make some adjustments for publication w/ #Bokselskap bokselskap.no/

  3. 🧵 2/ #ResearchSupportPartnershipUiO For the spring, I have been invited to co-teach a BA class on #EarlyModern #EnvironmentalHistory
    I will introduce data management & use #Zotero & #Tropy for managing bibliographical data and digitised documents.
    At a later point, I will guide students through a workflow of #AutomaticTextRecognition w/ #Transkribus to translation w/ #UniOslo #ChatGPT4. We will look into biases and snares when it comes to using these tools for working with/ historical sources.