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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
There are numerous courses in Digital Humanities offered by the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) and/or Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) which may interest readers of this blog, including some taught by...
Almanach and the eScripta team are very happy to welcome Gernot Fink, professor of pattern recognition at the Technical University of Dortmund, and Eugen Rusakov for a workshop on “deep learning for word spotting”....
The eScripta team has recently returned from the International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) which was held this year in Sydney. As well as the main conference, there were also very interesting...
As mentioned in a previous post, eScripta is represented at Digital Humanities 2019 in several different sessions. We now have the full details: What: A workshop on Archetype took place yesterday, in which participants...
On the 4th and 5th of June in London, the French Embassy in the U.K. and King’s College London are jointly funding a workshop to bring together domain experts from London and Paris to...
Although not strictly related to eScripta, readers of this blog may still be interested to learn of a series of practical and theoretical workshops I will be giving in April 2019 on paleografia digitale at...
The Scripta project and eScripta team will be represented at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds this year. Scripta is co-sponsoring a strand of three sessions on ‘Materiality in Series’, and two members of...
The eScripta team is very happy to announce that we will be presenting at DH2019, the annual Digital Humanities conference this year in Utrecht on 9–12 July. We will be presenting a poster on...
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...
Work in Progress blog of eScripta, the Digital Humanities team behind the Scripta project at Université PSL, Paris.