+ Presentations from the READ partners now available!

The READ project was launched in January 2016 at the ‘Technology meets Scholarship’ conference at the Hessian State Archives in Marburg (Germany).  This conference was organised by the co:op (community as opportunity – the creative archives’ and users’ network) project.

Slides and presentations from the READ partners are now available at the co:op website (see links below).  Videos of the presentations are also coming soon!

These presentations give a great introduction to the READ partners and the objectives of our project.

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Francesco Roberg (Hessian State Archives): Short Introduction to co:op and READ

Roger Labahn (University of Rostock): Handwritten Text Recognition.  Key Concepts

Enrique Vidal (Polytechnic University of Valencia): Keyword Searching as a Trade-Off Between Recall and Precision.  A New Way to Search Large Collections of Digitised Documents

Basilis Gatos (National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”): Hard Tasks in the Background.  Layout Analysis

Stefan Fiel (Technical University of Vienna): Automated Writer Identification and its Use Cases for Archival Documents

Louise Seaward (University College London): The Crowd, the Volunteers and the Supertranscribers.  Building and Supporting an Online User Community for the Bentham Edition

Christian Sieber (State Archives of Zurich): Transcription – Swiss Made.  The Projects of the State Archives of Zurich

István Kecskeméti  (National Archives Finland): In-House Digitisation as a Core Task.  The Finnish National Archives

Sebastian Colutto (University of Innsbruck): Transkribus.  A Virtual Research Environment for the Transcription and Recognition of Historical Documents 

Günter Mühlberger (University of Innsbruck): The READ project.  Objectives, Tasks and Partner Organisations

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