After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the last in a series of three posts about the training. Our third session, we started by looking at our own case studies. I started…

This week I escaped the university. I did my teaching on Monday, of course – a two hour workshop on sources related to Luther’s Reformation, as well as an extra lecture on preparing for the exams aimed at our third years, who are taking their first in person Lancaster exams this year. Then on Tuesday…

After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the second in a series of three posts about the training. The second session was a bit different. Before going into further information about how…

After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the first in a series of three posts about the training. The first session was a bit of an epic – 4 hours of training…