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The Biscari Archive. A case study of the application of Transkribus tool

Digital Libraries 2022-10-27 v1 Social and Information Networks
Authors: Salvatore Spina
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Abstract

The Paterno' Castello Principi di Biscari Archive, preserved at the State Archives of Catania, amongst one of the most crucial family archives, is, in the light of a digital historical methodology, the best computable historical heritage for demonstrating the applicability of applying an HTR tool, such as Transkribus, to digitised historical documents.

Keywords

Handwritten Text Recognition Transkribus digital humanities historical archive digital historical methodology

Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.14498,
  title  = {The Biscari Archive. A case study of the application of Transkribus tool},
  author = {Salvatore Spina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.14498},
  year   = {2022}
}

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