Call for Participants
Research Methods Workshop
Using Transkribus for your Research
with Dr Janée Allsman, UCD
Saturday, May 13th 2023
Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8
10.30 a.m. and 2.30 pm
This event will consist of an hour-long demonstration of how to
use Transkribus for humanities research, followed by a hands-on workshop
where participants will work on transcribing a document of their own.
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analysis for historical documents.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.
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 contact Dr
Janée Allsman (janee.allsman@ucd.ie) and Dr Derval Conroy
(derval.conroy@ucd.ie) to reserve a place by May 5.
Places in each session are limited to 10. Priority may be given to
postdoctoral and early career researchers, depending on demand. Participants
should indicate which session they would like to attend. Flexibility
would be appreciated.
For post-docs or early career researchers traveling from abroad, a
contribution to travel costs may be available. In this case, please indicate
in your email the nature of your research and how the workshop would assist
you.
No prior experience with Transkribus or other transcription software is
required.
Participation is free, but participants must create a
free Transkribus account and upload scans of their documents in advance of
the workshop. For further information
on Transkribus see: https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/ [1]
This event is orgnanised by the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research
Strand, 'Thresholds of Knowledge'.