WORKSHOP TITLE: 'Technology tools to explore historical literacy'
DATE: Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
TIME: 13.00-17.00
LOCATION: The Italian Room, Stadsarchief Amsterdam
PRELIMINARY AGENDA:
Introduction
• Signs of Literacy Community (Colin Greenstreet [MarineLives/Signs of Literacy])
• Examining literacy of C17th mariners using Amsterdam notarial archives and English High Court of Admiralty depositions (Mark Ponte [Stadsarchief Amsterdam] & Colin Greenstreet [MarineLives/Signs of Literacy])
• PROPOSED: Mariners identified in the Stadsarchief Amsterdam marriage registers [Jelle Van Lottum, Huygens Ing, TBC]. Jelle is responsible for the Dutch Prize Papers online project.
Technology themes
(a) Technology tools and processes in use in archives of relevance to historical literacy
(b) Technology tools to support community building for the study of historical literacy
• The potential of IIIF
• The potential of Transkribus
• The potential of Recogito annotation tool under development by Pelagios project team
(c) Technology tools to use in large scale analysis of markes, initials & signatures
WORKSHOP TITLE: 'Technology tools to explore historical literacy'
DATE: Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
TIME: 13.00-17.00
LOCATION: The Italian Room, Stadsarchief Amsterdam
PRELIMINARY AGENDA:
Introduction
• Signs of Literacy Community (Colin Greenstreet [MarineLives/Signs of Literacy])
• Examining literacy of C17th mariners using Amsterdam notarial archives and English High Court of Admiralty depositions (Mark Ponte [Stadsarchief Amsterdam] & Colin Greenstreet [MarineLives/Signs of Literacy])
• PROPOSED: Mariners identified in the Stadsarchief Amsterdam marriage registers [Jelle Van Lottum, Huygens Ing, TBC]. Jelle is responsible for the Dutch Prize Papers online project.
Technology themes
(a) Technology tools and processes in use in archives of relevance to historical literacy
(b) Technology tools to support community building for the study of historical literacy
• The potential of IIIF
• The potential of Transkribus
• The potential of Recogito annotation tool under development by Pelagios project team
(c) Technology tools to use in large scale analysis of markes, initials & signatures
• Pattern recognition & machine learning - Required skills & technology
Discussion