Poor access to digitised historical texts

Balk, Hildelies

doi:10.1145/1568296.1568298

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SHIBR—The Swedish Historical Birth Records: a semi-annotated dataset

Cheddad

Kusetoğulları

Hilmkil³

et al. 2021

Neural Comput & Applic

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This paper presents a digital image dataset of historical handwritten birth records stored in the archives of several parishes across Sweden, together with the corresponding metadata that supports the evaluation of document analysis algorithms’ performance. The dataset is called SHIBR (the Swedish Historical Birth Records). The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we believe it is the first and the largest Swedish dataset of its kind provided as open access (15,000 high-resolution colour images of the era between 1800 and 1840). We also perform some data mining of the dataset to uncover some statistics and facts that might be of interest and use to genealogists. Second, we provide a comprehensive survey of contemporary datasets in the field that are open to the public along with a compact review of word spotting techniques. The word transcription file contains 17 columns of information pertaining to each image (e.g., child’s first name, birth date, date of baptism, father's first/last name, mother’s first/last name, death records, town, job title of the father/mother, etc.). Moreover, we evaluate some deep learning models, pre-trained on two other renowned datasets, for word spotting in SHIBR. However, our dataset proved challenging due to the unique handwriting style. Therefore, the dataset could also be used for competitions dedicated to a large set of document analysis problems, including word spotting.

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SHIBR—The Swedish Historical Birth Records: a semi-annotated dataset

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Neural Comput & Applic

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Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing

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An experimental workflow development platform for historical document digitisation and analysis

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Schlarb

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Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing

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The paper presents a novel web-based platform for experimental workflow development in historical document digitisation and analysis. The platform has been developed as part of the IMPACT project, providing a range of tools and services for transforming physical documents into digital resources. It explains the main drivers in developing the technical framework and its architecture, how and by whom it can be used and presents some initial results. The main idea lies in setting up an interoperable and distributed infrastructure based on loose coupling of tools via web services that are wrapped in modular workflow templates which can be executed, combined and evaluated in many different ways. As the workflows are registered through a Web 2.0 environment, which is integrated with a workflow management system, users can easily discover, share, rate and tag workflows and thereby support the building of capacity across the whole community. Where ground truth is available, the workflow templates can also be used to compare and evaluate new methods in a transparent and flexible way.

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Poor access to digitised historical texts

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SHIBR—The Swedish Historical Birth Records: a semi-annotated dataset

SHIBR—The Swedish Historical Birth Records: a semi-annotated dataset

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An experimental workflow development platform for historical document digitisation and analysis

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