The Digital Scholarship Hub is pleased to announce the next event in the 2023-4 series of monthly events:

Digital Scholarship Hub: Transkribus overview and workshop (Dr Janée Allsman, UCD)

Tuesday 9th April, 2024, 1-3pm, on Teams and in-person (McClay Library Auditorium, lunch provided). Please register your attendance here.

Transkribus is an AI-powered platform providing text recognition and layout analysis for historical documents. Using Transkribus, researchers can digitally transcribe, tag, and search manuscript and printed texts individually or collaboratively. To accelerate the transcription of manuscript documents, Transkribus offers a range of publicly accessible Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models, as well as the option of training your own public or private HTR model tailored to your collection of documents.

This event will consist of a one-hour demonstration of how to use Transkribus, followed by a hands-on workshop where participants will work on transcribing a document of their own.

Scholars and colleagues working on any kind of manuscript or archival materials who would like to participate and investigate the potential of this software for their research are invited to attend.