3-day-workshop | HTR Winter School 2025

Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources

“A woman examines an old scroll inside a medieval library. Above the parchment, a computer displays real-time transcription in Syriac, Hebrew, Latin, Czech, and German. The futuristic interface highlights letters, shows translations.” — A woman examines an ancient scroll inside a medieval library. Above the parchment, a computer displays a real-time transcription in Syriac, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Czech, and German. The futuristic interface highlights letters and provides translations. AI image created on June 8, 2025, by Gemini; further edited by Martin Roček.

in person in Vienna

Schedule

Day 1 | Thursday DEC 11

Finishing work on the transcription and models
Sharing is caring: How to share and publish your data 2
Working in groups

Day 2 | Friday DEC 12

Alternatives to Transkribus
What can you do with automatic transcriptions?
Working in groups

Day 3 | Saturday DEC 13

Time to finish the work
Presentation of results by working groups

Information

Organisation

Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO)
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Manuscript, Rare Books and Archival Studies Initiative (MARBAS)
Princeton University, USA

Cooperation Partner

Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB)
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Organisers

Cinzia Grifoni
Anna Michalcová
Ekaterini Mitsiou
Jan Odstrčilík
Leon Pürstinger

Supported by

READ-COOP | Transkribus

IT expertise

Martin Roček
Charles University in Prague

Groups

Carolingian Latin

Bernadette Abrahamek
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Cinzia Grifoni
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Leon Pürstinger
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Helmut Reimitz
Princeton University

Gerda Heydemann
Freie Universität Berlin

William Weis
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Jeremy Christian Thompson
University of Göttingen

Late medieval Latin

Jan Odstrčilík
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Zuzana Čermáková Lukšová
Masaryk University Brno

Annamária Kovács
Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest

Medieval Czech

Anna Michalcová
Czech Academy of Sciences

Jitka Filipová
Czech Academy of Sciences

Eliška Pěnkavová
University of South Bohemia

Early Modern German

Petr Maťa
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Petra Křenková
Charles University in Prague

Byzantine Greek

Eirini Afentoulidou
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Ekaterini Mitsiou
University of Vienna

Georgi Mitov
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Syriac

Ephrem Aboud Ishac
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Christine Roughan
Princeton University

Medieval Hebrew

Bianca Plattner
University of Vienna

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SoundCloud	A connection to SoundCloud will be established to play audio files.	-	Connection	SoundCloud
Twitter	A connection to Twitter will be established to display tweets.	-	missing translation: type.	Twitter
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_ga	Used to distinguish users.	400 days	missing translation: type.	Google Analytics
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_ScCbts	Stores temporary session or playback preferences.	6 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
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eupubconsent-v2	Stores the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework string.	364 days	missing translation: type.	IAB / Spotify
OptanonAlertBoxClosed	Saves the state of your data protection consent.	364 days	missing translation: type.	OneTrust
OptanonConsent	Saves the state of your data protection consent.	365 days	missing translation: type.	OneTrust
sp_adid	Spotify advertising identifier.	365 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
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sp_t	Session token used for Spotify playback and access.	365 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify

Events

3-day-workshop | HTR Winter School 2025

in person in Vienna

Information

Information

Organisation

Cooperation Partner

Organisers

Supported by

IT expertise

Groups