eScripta
Welcome to the eScripta blog. This is a ‘work in progress’ blog associated with eScripta, the Digital Humanities team within the Scripta project at Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. It features regular discussions from...
Open Position: Postdoc ERC Synergy MiDRASH
Postdoc ERC Synergy MiDRASH in Paris The Ecole pratique des hautes études, PSL-University in Paris, France is hiring a postdoctoral research associate in Hebrew Literature to work on the ERC Synergy project MiDRASH (Migrations...
ERC Synergy MiDRASH Awarded to EPHE and partner institutions
MiDRASH – Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Synergy Grant to the EPHE and its partner...
eScriptorium recognised in prestigious DataX grant from Princeton University
The Princeton Geniza Project (HTR4PGP) has been awarded funding from Princeton University’s Schmidt DataX Fund to apply the kraken and eScriptorium to the Cairo Geniza, an important collection of medieval manuscripts written in Hebrew....
UB Mannheim presents eScriptorium
Larissa Will and Stefan Weil from the UB Mannheim have published a new demonstration video on using eScriptorium for newspapers (in German) that was presented at the Tag der Archive 2022 in Aachen :
RESILIENCE has been accepted in the ESFRI 2021 road map
We are honored to announce that the RESILIENCE research infrastructure has been accepted in the 2021 roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). The EPHE is one of the twelve European...
Interview of Prof. Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra about eScripta
Prof. Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra will give an interview (in french) about eScripta and the transcription of hebrew manuscripts at 17h (CET) on May 11th. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1IiGicASek
Présentation d’eScriptorium au DataLab de la BnF
La vidéo de l’atelier entier du 26 janvier 2021 dédié à la transcription des manuscrits est désormais accessible ici. Notre présentation commence à 1:02:51
Moving from Transkribus to eScriptorium
Many thanks again to Alix Chague from the LectauRep project for another very useful tutorial, this time explaining how to export your existing data from Transkribus and import them into eScriptorium. Unfortunately Transkribus does...
Presentation of the Sofer Mahir project and eScriptorium at the DHJewish conference in Luxemburg, January 2021
Stökl Ben Ezra, D., Lapin, H., Lolli, E. Jablonski, P. Sofer Mahir: Opening Up Rabbinic Manuscripts Towards Scholarly Editions, DHJewish conference at the University of Luxembourg, 11-14 January, 2021. watch video.
Introduction to eScriptorium
Alix Chague from the LectauRep project has just created a very wonderful introduction into eScriptorium. It’s currently only in French but if you need it in English, google translates does a very nice job....
eScripta (Virtually) in Lausanne
We will be presenting the eScripta project at the on-line conference, Virtual Research Environments and Ancient Manuscripts at the University of Lausanne on Thursday and Friday, 10 and 11 September 2020. This conference is...
eScripta Team at ICFHR 2020
The eScripta team is very well represented at this year’s International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR). Scheduled to be held in Dortmond, the conference this year is being held entirely online. The...
Kraken/eScriptorium in IIIF Week
We will be giving a brief presentation of Kraken and eScriptorium as part of IIIF week, in the session on ‘IIIF and Manuscript Use Cases’. The presentation will be online at 6pm Paris time,...
Complex layout analysis
Advancing well on complex layout analysis. Here is what we showed for the trainable baseline detection for complex Arabic documents at the last HIP@ICDAR in September 2019 (see publications). It is very successful on...
Présentation de kraken : ADEMEC
Jean-Baptiste Camps de l’École Nationale des Chartes présentera un atelier hands on kraken lors de la journée d’études IA et institutions patrimoniales : enjeux, défis et opportunités de l’ADEMEC à la Bibliothèque national de...