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roughly 3 weeks in mid-late January 2023 (subject to interruptions, of course; in the short term, this ranks low among our priorities).
General approach
Install Transkribus and create an account that I can use
Read the docs
Become Get familiar with the Transkribus user interface
Learn the lingo (and there is a lot of lingo)
Explore the user community and other online resources
Research current use patterns: what are common ways in which our peers are using the tool
Gain an intuitive sense of how we might realistically use it
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Explore how an institution like us might make use of the tool
Tasks
Formulate proposal
Install Transkribus and create an account that I can use
Read the docs and watch the videos and go through the tutorials
Test the tool using Jocelyn's transcriptions of Bredig handwritten letters as "ground truth"
Attempt to train the software to transcribe letters it hasn't seen yet
Evaluate automatic transcriptions results against expert transcriptions
Take a look at other collections of handwritten letters too (Pasteur? Booth?)
write-Write everything up (see below)
Deliverables
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