+ New collaboration between public and archives in Finland
The National Archives of Finland has started working with members of the public to train Handwritten Text Recognition technology to process a significant set of nineteenth-century court documents.
The archives organised a workshop in June 2017 to teach Finnish family historians from the Genealogical Society of Finland how to transcribe handwritten material in our Transkribus platform. Since the workshop, these volunteers have continued to work on nineteenth-century court records from the cities of Porvoo and Jyväskylä, the former written entirely in Swedish, the latter written in both Swedish and Finnish.
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