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Signsofliteracy / Signoff

Tools for the study of historical literacy
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WORKSHOP SUB-TOPIC: Sources of data for pattern recognition/machine learning #19

Open Addaci opened 6 years ago

Addaci commented 6 years ago

@mhailwood @voetnoot @jellevanlottum @Giovanni1085 @glenrobson @amaliasl With continued rapid digitisation of English and Dutch language records by a variety of GLAM institutions, academic research projects, commercial genealogical organisations, and individual researchers (both academic and non-academic), we need to systematically review existing digitised manuscript records for sources of markes, initials & signatures ("signoffs") at scale across the 1550-1750 period.

As a start, we would like to create a long list of potential sources, with brief remarks about the numbers of known images, their marke/initial/signature ("signoff") intensity, and other relevant data.

For example, English High Court of Admiralty depositions (HCA 13 series), 1650s, ca. 7,000 images digitised by MarineLives project from source material at TNA, Kew. Held on Semantic Media Wiki: http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/MarineLives. Signoff intensity = ca. 1 per two pages. Each signoff associated with metadata for person's full name, age, occupation, and place of residence.

Addaci commented 6 years ago

Archives & repositories to examine for signature intensive digitised manuscript records