Speaker
Doug Emery
(University of Pennsylvania Libraries)
Description
Since 2023, members of Penn Libraries’ Cultural Heritage Computing, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, and Research Data and Digital Scholarship groups have conducted workshops and pilot projects to explore workflows for handwritten text recognition (HTR) and its potential to support transcription of library collections for discovery, access, and computational use. This talk will focus on our exploratory work with HTR models and workflows as groundwork for expanding access to Penn Libraries’ diverse manuscript collections.