Tools: Transkribus (OCR)

A tool for transcription of handwritten and printed documents:

https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/

Resources: Digital city library of Wrocław

"Breslau/Wrocław in Lower Silesia (PL) has been the European Capital of Culture since January 2016. The Digitales Forum Mittel- und Osteuropa e.V. (DiFMOE) takes this as an opportunity to present its rich and diverse past to a broad public. More than 115,000 pages of digitised historical cultural assets from and about Breslau are made accessible to all interested visitors as free reading."

 https://www.wratislavia-digitalis.eu/en/home-page/

Resources: Digitized letters of Robert Koch

"Zum Abschluss des Jubiläumsjahres, mit dem das Robert Koch-Institut 2016 sein 125-jähriges Bestehen gefeiert hat, stehen nun die Briefe Robert Kochs online zur Verfügung. Die mehr als 200 handschriftlichen Briefe an Kollegen, darunter Paul Ehrlich und Friedrich Loeffler, wurden transkribiert und in elektronische Form überführt. Die Briefe sind über den Publikationsserver des Robert Koch-Instituts abrufbar (Link siehe unten). Zudem wurden bereits zehn Briefe an Robert Koch transkribiert und sind an gleicher Stelle online verfügbar."

http://www.rki.de/DE/Home/homepage_node.html

http://edoc.rki.de/browsing/configurations/rki_rk_letters/

Conf: Digital Humanities: Workshop for digital handwriting recognition - Zuerich 10/16

http://www.hist.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:5ebea1f9-f0af-47f7-9841-b88b45a971e0/Programm_Workshop_UZH.pdf

Project: Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ)

"READ's mission is to revolutionize access to archival documents with the support of cutting-edge technology such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Keyword Spotting (KWS)."

 http://read.transkribus.eu/

Project: Colonial North American Project

"This website provides access to some of the remarkable materials digitized as part of the ongoing, multi-year Colonial North American Project at Harvard University.

When complete, the project will make available to the world digitized images of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17^th and 18^th century North America. Scattered through twelve repositories, these documents reveal a great deal about topics such as social life, education, trade, finance, politics, revolution, war, women, Native American life, slavery, science, medicine, and religion. In addition to reflecting the origins of the United States, the digitized materials also document aspects of life and work in Great Britain, France, Canada, the Caribbean, and Mexico. The ‘Essays’ on this website are the work of a Summer 2015 Arcadia Fellow, Alicia DeMaio, who was one of the first researchers to connect thematically related material from among the images digitized to date."

For a review see also:  Journal of American History 2016 103: 551-552

(http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/103/2/551.full.pdf+html)

Resources: RIDE : A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources

"RIDE is a review journal dedicated to digital editions and resources. RIDE aims to direct attention to digital editions and to provide a forum in which expert peers criticise and discuss the efforts of digital editors in order to improve current practices and advance future developments. It will do so by asking its reviewers to pay attention not only to the traditional virtues and vices of any edition, but also to the progressing methodology and its technical implications. Read more about RIDE in our editorial."

http://ride.i-d-e.de/about/