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1st ZOOM ONLINE sessions | HTR Winter School 2025

Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources

Freitag 24.10.2025 02:10 Uhr
“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.

Schedule

1st ZOOM ONLINE sessions

14:00 to 17:00

Session 1 | Friday OCT 24

  • What is HTR? A general introduction
  • Transkribus 1 (uploading documents, layout recognition, simple transcription)
  • Introduction into manuscripts and working in groups

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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