The national project for the AI #digitization of the Danish municipal councils' archival material. Run by #AarhusCityArchives, SoMe: @Anettelarner #Transkribus
Aarhus, Denmark
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This profile promotes the Danish #digitalHistory project, Retro, which works on digitalising municipal council protocols from c.1870 onwards using #Transkribus in cooperation with #ReadCoop.
The profile is managed by Dr. @Anettelarner at Aarhus City Archives.
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At Aarhus City Archives, we’ve started transcribing a 17th-century council protocol, uncovering a captivating criminal case filled with violence and theft. Read on, or head to the full blog entry here: bit.ly/3qOqhr3
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17/n Our criminal case features conflicting testimonies! We see how there are nuances as witnesses recall different versions of events. A story of the complexities of truth and perception in a #17thC society unravels and we see that tensions ran high back then too. #LegalHistory
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18/18 Transcribing the 17th-century text is not an easy task. In the Retro-project we train HTR models using #Transkribus to digitally transcribe our archival manuscripts, but they need to be trained first, and that’s what we are doing right now! #ExpertWork #HistoricalTexts 📜
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Work on a #17thC #HTR model has started at #AarhusCityArchives! 👏📜
Next week we will share a bloody and fascinating story about a courtcase involving a violent attack on a city scribe by city judge, as well as accusations of theft of a dead man's possessions.
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17thC text is very different both in spelling, syntax and the use of old words from what we are used to now, so unless a reader is well practised in this, reading the handwriting is doubly difficult. This is yet another reason for working on these HTR models now!
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