RetroDigitalisering.dk

This profile promotes the Danish #digitalHistory project, Retro, which works on digitalising municipal council protocols from c.1870 onwards using #Transkribus in cooperation with #ReadCoop. The profile is managed by Dr. @Anettelarner at Aarhus City Archives.

18/18 Transcribing the 17th-century text is not an easy task. In the Retro-project we train HTR models using #Transkribus to digitally transcribe our archival manuscripts, but they need to be trained first, and that’s what we are doing right now! #ExpertWork #HistoricalTexts 📜

17/n Our criminal case features conflicting testimonies! We see how there are nuances as witnesses recall different versions of events. A story of the complexities of truth and perception in a #17thC society unravels and we see that tensions ran high back then too. #LegalHistory

1/n 📜 At Aarhus City Archives, we’ve started transcribing a 17th-century council protocol, uncovering a captivating criminal case filled with violence and theft. Read on, or head to the full blog entry here: bit.ly/3qOqhr3 #DanishHistory #Archives #Transkribus

Danish example from the text shown above --> "Hand holt Lilistue døren med dend enne hand for mig at ieg icke skulle komme ud aff døren mens hand slog mig, saa min hatt och lille hue falt aff mit Hoffuid" - If you want to know what it says or want the whole story, stay put!

17thC text is very different both in spelling, syntax and the use of old words from what we are used to now, so unless a reader is well practised in this, reading the handwriting is doubly difficult. This is yet another reason for working on these HTR models now! --->

Work on a #17thC #HTR model has started at #AarhusCityArchives! 👏📜 Next week we will share a bloody and fascinating story about a courtcase involving a violent attack on a city scribe by city judge, as well as accusations of theft of a dead man's possessions. #transkribus