Schools & Young People

_{(Photo: CC-BY 4.0, Vanessa Hannesschläger)}

Kinderuni Wien 2019, Workshop "Im Wörterwald bei den Dingsda"

In Summer 2018, Vanessa Hannesschläger (PI of Handke in Zungen) and Daniela Fasching invited junior scientists into the "word forest" of Peter Handke's play "Die Unschuldigen, ich und die Unbekannte am Rand der Landstraße".

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Kinderuni Wien 2019, Workshop "Im Wörterwald bei den Dingsda"

They explored the text in the form of a huge scroll, to fulfill their task and look for words of many different languages. It was less like reading a book and more like walking along a country road and seeing what one could find along the wayside ...

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Kinderuni Wien 2019, Workshop "Im Wörterwald bei den Dingsda"

The children collected all the words of languages other than German in a "database" displayed on the walls, tried to find out their meaning and connected them to as many words in other languages as possible.

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Kinderuni Wien 2019, Workshop "Auf Forschungsreise mit Scan-Zelt und Lese-Zeitmaschine"

On the ÖAW day of the Vienna children's university in Summer 2019, workshop participants took a trip to the 18^th century, to join ACDH-CH researcher's efforts of decoding writings from earlier times, which are often not easy to read.

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Kinderuni Wien 2019, Workshop "Auf Forschungsreise mit Scan-Zelt und Lese-Zeitmaschine"

Junior historians got to know the type of writing called "Fraktur" which the newspaper "Wien[n]erisches Diarium" was printed in over 200 years ago. Equipped with their new knowledge, they set out to read and transcribe a set of old newspaper articles from the 18th century.

_{(Foto: CC-BY 4.0, Daniela Fasching)}

Kinderuni Wien 2019, Workshop "Auf Forschungsreise mit Scan-Zelt und Lese-Zeitmaschine"

Later, they got to try out the "ScanTent" a handy device that allows researchers to quickly create digital versions of historical texts with the help of a phone camera ...

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Kinderuni Wien 2019, Workshop "Auf Forschungsreise mit Scan-Zelt und Lese-Zeitmaschine"

... so that they can be processed by Transkribus, a "reading" computer programme that was developed to automatically transcribe historical and handwritten texts to help researchers with their work.

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Kinderuni Wien 2019, Workshop "Auf Forschungsreise mit Scan-Zelt und Lese-Zeitmaschine"

However, even the computer is not perfect and the software needs human help to learn how to "read" better: here, the children could contribute by correcting some of the errors the programme made.