Automated Text Recognition: Bringing Handwritten Manuscripts to the Forefront of Digital Research
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
11-12 PM ET / 2-3 PM PT
Primary source materials and digital archives fundamentally change traditional research, providing researchers the opportunity to view and expand upon historical backstories, documents, and materials through access to images of records, case studies, manuscripts, reports, drawings, maps, photographs, periodicals, and more.
Automated Text Recognition (ATR) is an AI-driven image recognition program that analyzes handwritten documents, runs the images against a variety of datasets to determine the best match, then attempts to recognize words within these handwritten documents.
This breakthrough AI dedicated to manuscript exploration accelerates research work, making handwritten content fully discoverable via search, and turning handwriting into easily readable typeset that can be seamlessly utilized for data analysis, quoted, and cited. The implementation of ATR will transform the nature of manuscript research and open the field to new researchers struggling with the requirements and skillset needed for intensive manuscript reading. Through ATR, manuscripts and printed materials will come close to parity in their discoverability for the first time.
Join us for a webinar introducing ATR to the Wiley Digital Archives program, expanding manuscript search and exploration to offer full digital access to seven centuries of handwritten manuscript pages.
Drawing on their personal research, teaching, and collection management backgrounds, our speakers are excited to share the ways in which ATR will transform digital research by supporting unprecedented efficiency, enhanced reach and search results, and access to unique manuscript content, enabling focus on insightful rather than time-consuming work.
Q&A to follow.
Audience members can expect to learn:
How the technology behind ATR works, and the difference between ATR, OCR, and HTR How ATR will enhance research and teaching by expanding search results and efficiency, solving manuscript comprehension challenges How ATR will improve archive collection management and librarianship, supporting institutional objectives and publishing by placing researchers ahead of the curve in their fields
Register Now! Speakers Kate Simpson
Lecturer in Information Studies
University of Glasgow Kathryn Simpson is a Lecturer in Information Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. She is a past fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University. She is an Associate Project Scholar and UK Outreach Director for Livingstone Online. Alex Gil
Digital Scholarship Librarian
Columbia University Alex Gil is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, where he collaborates with faculty, students and library colleagues in humanities research, pedagogy and knowledge production that involves the use of advanced computation, digital media design, and network technologies. He is the lead coordinator for the Butler Library Studio at Columbia University Libraries, a tech-light library space focused on digital scholarship and pedagogy, and now a broadcast, Studio Remote. Gil is co-founder and moderator of Columbia’s Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities, a trans-disciplinary research cluster focused on experimental humanities; co-creator and co-editor of archipelagos journal: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, and co-wrangler of its sister conference series, The Caribbean Digital. Moderator: Ray Abruzzi
Publisher, Wiley Digital Archives
Wiley Ray Abruzzi is the Publisher for Wiley Digital Archives, a program to digitize the archival holdings of learned societies and other institutional repositories. Ray has over 20 years’ experience in academic publishing, and has been working for over a decade to make primary sources accessible to students, educators, and researchers, partnering with over 300 libraries, archives, and other institutions around the world to digitize primary source collections. Ray is a member of the Center for Science and Society, the Executive Editor of the Columbia Journal of History, a research associate on the Making and Knowing project, and a consultant on History Lab at Columbia University.
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