The Mambrino Project experience with Transkribus | Stefano Bazzaco #TUC22
Channel: Transkribus
Date: 10/10/2022

Stefano Bazzaco, University of Verona
The Mambrino Project experience with Transkribus: objectives, workflow, deliverables, future insights
The following presentation takes into account the different experiences acquired by Mambrino Project (Univ. of Verona, https://www.mambrino.it/it) in the field of early printed documents recognition with Transkribus HTR platform (READ Coop SCE). In the first part of the presentation we will briefly describe the main objectives of the project, pointing out the characteristics of the Spanish and Italian early printed books of the Modern Age we deal with and the way we performed automated transcription on them. In the second part, we will define the digital workflow that allowed us to refine raw transcriptions with the help of students and scholars involved in the project. Thirdly, we will present the HTR+ models we created for Venetian Italics (XVI Century) and Spanish Gothic and Round scripts (XV-XVII Century), discussing their usage, efficiency, and future improvements.
Starting form the consideration that Transkribus provides a suitable environment to enhance collaboration with other partners and research groups, the last part of the presentation will take into account the creation of a cross-cutting website to gather all other research projects dealing with the automated recognition of early printed texts. The website will be conceived as an aggregator, but also as a point of reference for the entire community and general public to get updates on the following themes: new HTR+, PyLaya and P2PaLA models for early printed materials; postprocessing techniques; crowdsourcing models for the correction of raw transcriptions.