Programme

Scholarship Presentations Panel 3

Archives, Research, and Society

Transcription with an Impact

Wednesday 23 September 09:00 – 11:00

HTR as an enabler for research questions — colonial history, gender history, network analysis, digital editions. The "why" takes centre stage, not the "how".

Contents

  1. i.

    Unlocking Colonial Voices: Transkribus and the Study of New Kingdom of Granada colonial documents (16th–18th Centuries)

  2. ii.

    Rethinking the Company Raj: Unlocking Multilingual Archives on Colonial Education through OCR and AI

  3. iii.

    Using Transkribus to Trace Women's Labour in Historical Newspapers

  4. iv.

    Who Wrote What? HTR and Stylometric Approaches to Scribal Attribution in Christine de Pizan's Workshop

  5. v.

    From Gossip to Structured Data: AI-assisted multimodal extraction from a historical society magazine

  6. vi.

    From Handwriting to Drama Analysis: A Workflow for Exploring Robert Schumann's Unpublished Dramatic Fragments