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Artificial Intelligence

Transcribing Kartini: Using handwritten text recognition technology to unlock UNESCO 'Memory of the World' letters

During her internship at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Kayla Varga used an approach combining AI and human input to make reading historic letters more accessible and efficient.

Open Science · Projects

After the Collaborative Transcription: addressing the challenges of crowdsourced transcription

Leiden University Libraries support transcription of digitised materials in various ways, including methods that enable crowdsourcing. A recent international symposium and the exchange of experiences, produced insights that will help to improve how Leiden can respond to these challenges.

Medieval palaeography: using IIIF in education

Robert Stein uses a new online Medieval Palaeography platform to teach students to read medieval archival documents and to translate the Middle-dutch to modern Dutch.