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- Can a script really "die"? 🤔 From Cló Gaelach to Ottoman Turkish, here are three projects that are using Transkribus to bring obsolete writing systems back from the dead.
- Reposted by TranskribusNew study compares state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition engines—PyLaia, IDA, and TrOCR—for digitizing historical documents. Findings highlight the impact of language models and diverse datasets on recognition accuracy. Read more: rdcu.be/elLLR #DigitalHumanities #HTR #HistoricalDocuments
- French, German, English, Dutch, Tibetan...? You can train a Transkribus model for any language or script. Here's one for #Tibetan newspapers 👇https://app.transkribus.org/models/text/169581
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- Want to mark all the pages that are ready for export? Or indicate which pages have blurry text? Or show which ones are still on your to-do list? Now you can, with the "Add labels" feature 👇
- Zur Erinnerung 👉 Unser (kostenloses!) Webinar für Kommunalarchive findet heute um 16.00 Uhr statt. Registrieren Sie sich unter:
- Discover Vienna's musical past! 🎼 The "Concert Life in Vienna" project is using Transkribus to explore previously untouched accounts of musical life in the time of Beethoven and Haydn. Find out more👇 #HistoricalMusic #DigitalHumanities
- Thanks to the team from @tcddublin.bsky.social for training this new #English model based on #Scottish port books from the 17th century 👇 www.transkribus.org/model/scotti...
- Reposted by TranskribusSome fantastic finds in the Tudor wills 📜 over at the @materialwills.bsky.social Zooniverse site 👇 #history #skystorians #earlymodern #crowdsourcing #citizenscience @zooniverse.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social
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- It's finally here 🥳 Our Transkribus Starter Pack lists Transkribus users and READ-COOP members who are active on BlueSky. If you are a Transkribus user and want to be added to the pack, then simply message us and we will add you 👍 go.bsky.app/VRqRmM9at://did:plc:adbwqqtuasa27sf4ijch4zvt/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lnk7iznvjk2c
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- 📣 Calling all DACH archives 📣 Am 07. Mai veranstalten wir ein exklusives Webinar für Kommunalarchive in der DACH-Region. Das Thema? Wie Sie mit Transkribus Dokumente gemeinsam bearbeiten und sie ganz einfach digital zugänglich machen können. Mehr Infos:
- If only all historical documents were written in such beautiful handwriting 🙈
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- With the release of our new Text Titan I bis model, let's take a closer look at our Super Models and the powerful technology behind them 👇 blog.transkribus.org/en/what-are-...
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- How unlocking one document can change an entire historical narrative... Happy Birthday Shakespeare! 🥳
- Did you know that we give away free credits to students who want to use Transkribus for their Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis? Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇 www.transkribus.org/scholarship
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- Let us introduce the new Text Titan I bis 💪 This latest version of our most comprehensive Super Model has a CER of just 6.7% across all Latin scripts, down from the previous version's 8.6%. Find out more in this blog post 👇 blog.transkribus.org/en/introduci...
- Wouldn't it be great if you could upload your Transkribus collections straight onto a website? Oh, but you can! Find out more in this webinar about Transkribus Sites 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxFo...
- Crowdsourced transcription platform FromThePage has long championed public participation in historical research. Find out how they used Transkribus' AI technology to help their volunteer transcribers in this Success Story 👇 blog.transkribus.org/en/fromthepa... @benwbrum.bsky.social
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- The model you choose has a big influence on the accuracy of your transcriptions. Check out this post for tips on how to choose the right model for your documents 👇 help.transkribus.org/choosing-a-m...
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- We're holding another Transkribus Webinar for Beginners 🥳 Wednesday 9 April, 16.00 CET Sign up here: www.transkribus.org/event/for-be...
- This might be the sweetest archival material we've seen in a while 🥰
- Church Slavonic has been the liturgical language of the Eastern Orthodox Church since the 1400s. And Vladimir Neumann at the Staatsbibliothek Berlin @kulturspk.bsky.social has created two new models for it 👇 Ogorodok-Limonar (Kyiv): bit.ly/4lf1d4w Kirillova kniga (Moscow): bit.ly/4iOznuj
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- #ThrowbackThursday to this Success Story from 2022 about the amazing discovery of Karl Benedikt Hase's secret diary👇 blog.transkribus.org/en/diary-of-... @krithemp.bsky.social
- If your document has consistently straight lines of text, great! If it doesn't, then you might want to consider a Baselines model. Find out more in this webinar 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=igse...
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- Exciting news for users working with #Dutch & #Danish material! We're launching two new Super Models in Transkribus: 🇩🇰 Dansk Dokumentalist - optimised for Danish historical texts app.transkribus.org/models/text/... 🇳🇱 Dutch Dean - tailored for Dutch documents app.transkribus.org/models/text/...
- Are you in #Arnhem , NL, tomorrow, Tuesday 25 March? Then come along to the Het Juiste Loket event and see Transkribus in action. More info and sign up 👉 erfgoedgelderland.nl/project/het-...
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- "This is an application that is disrupting perhaps the most ingrained and indispensable practice of the historian’s work: the research, study and analysis of unpublished archival material." Great article from Fondazione Bruno Kessler: magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/ai-h...
- Reposted by TranskribusIf you missed yesterday's Webinar, we've now uploaded the recording 📽️ We talked about: Zooniverse progress (no. of lines of text transcribed) 📈 Interesting bequests found 🧀🐄💍 Creative collaborations 🎵 What we'll do with 25,000 will transcriptions📜✍️ #EarlyModern #skystorians youtu.be/XnNF9j1HfKU
- From free webinars to dedicated Customer Success Managers, the Transkribus team is here to support you on your transcription journey. In this blog post, we talk to four members of the Transkribus team, to find out how their work helps users to get the most out of the platform. bit.ly/4iaLUYx
- Headed by Habib Ibrahim at @unituebingen.bsky.social , the Agapet project is creating a set of models for #Arabic, trained on Christian Arabic manuscripts from the 9th-18th centuries. And they've just released their model for 13th-century Arabic👇 www.transkribus.org/model/agapet...
- #ManuscriptMonday (miniature edition)
- Next Friday, 21 March, the Centre for Digital European Legal History (CODE) at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social will be holding its first-ever congress 🥳 Programme and sign up 👉 vu.nl/nl/agenda/20...
- Calling all Transkribus users in the Americas! 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 The next installment of our popular "Webinar for beginners" is taking place today, Thursday March 13, at the more Americas-friendly time of 4pm PDT 🥳 Sign up at www.transkribus.org/event/for-be...
- Congrats to the lucky winners from the State Archives in #Zagreb on winning the ScanTent raffle at this year's #RootsTech2025! 🥳
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- What makes us value certain objects? 🧐 The Material Culture of Wills project is transcribing 25,000 early modern wills, to find out how people's relationships with their possessions changed over 250 years. Find out more in this Success Story: bit.ly/3Fk8U8O @materialwills.bsky.social
- Reposted by TranskribusLet's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/
- Try our new & improved upload feature ✨ Drag & drop entire folders into the upload, and Transkribus will automatically create one document per folder. #TranskribusTips
- #RootsTech2025 may be over, but the memories will last forever. Thanks to everyone we got to chat to — it was lovely to hear all about your projects and to introduce Transkribus to those who had never used it before. And thanks to Family Search for organising such a great conference!
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- Tomorrow is #InternationalWomensDay 💁♀️ This year, we want to celebrate three women who were not only the "first women," but the "first people" to achieve something major in their field and change the world forever. Discover their stories: blog.transkribus.org/en/3-inspira... #IWD2025
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- We're all ready for #RootsTech! Come visit Andy and Helene at booth 1813 to find out more about how Transkribus can help decipher your family records 📃 (They have stickers and Austrian chocolate too 😋)
- #Amsterdam is 750 years old 🥳 To celebrate, the Amsterdam City Archives has created a special exhibition about the city's medieval history and uploaded new medieval sources, transcribed with Transkribus, to their online portal 💻 Exhibition: bit.ly/4baNG9b Documents: bit.ly/3EYZXBy
- It's always a pleasure to meet our members in person 🤗 Here's what we got up to at @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social yesterday.
- We're not only stateside this week: Transkribus community director @caromein.bsky.social gave an insightful workshop at #dhnb2025 in #Tartu yesterday, helping users get started with the platform. Thanks to Carmen Kurg for the photos! @dhnb.bsky.social
- Transkribus on tour 🛩️ Helene and Andy have crossed the pond to meet our members @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social before heading to #RootsTech. If you're also in Salt Lake City this week, feel free to come say hi 👋
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- Transkribus Sites allows you to quickly publish whole collections online and make them public for everyone to read 🤲 Check out this webinar with Helene, Florian and Sara for more information. youtu.be/xxFoHuFWvGw
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- History is so much more than just wars & treaties 🔍 This 19th-century Norwegian cookbook by Christine Storm Munch reveals how people ate, grew potatoes, removed stains, & even tried to cure colds, giving us a true impression of how people lived at the time. View it here: bit.ly/3Qt0ApD
- Italian linguist and computer scientist Roberto Busa is regarded as one of the founding fathers of #DigitalHumanities. And now his work has come full circle with our latest #Italian model, which was trained on the handwriting of none other than Roberto Busa. Check it out: bit.ly/4b6jqfG
- One week to go until the Transkribus workshop at #DHNB2025 in #Tartu, led by the one and only Annemieke Romein @caromein.bsky.social 🤓 More info: dhnb.eu/conferences/... @dhnb.bsky.social
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- Unlock the past with Transkribus! 🗝️ From Sweden's National Archives to the Bautzen City Archive in Germany, discover how three archives have transformed their collections into accessible digital treasures. Explore their journeys and learn more: bit.ly/4b4tOol
