Documentation
- DH Dashboard for Primeros Libros documentation [pdf]
By: Bryan Tarpley - People’s Paper (public final report) [pdf]
Academic Publications
- Reading the First Books: Colonial Mexican Documents in the Digital Age
Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Maria Victoria Fernandez. Portal: LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections Annual Review (2017)
- Machine Reading the Primeros Libros
Hannah Alpert-Abrams. Digital Humanities Quarterly 10:4 (2016) -
An Unsupervised Model of Orthographic Variation for Historical Document Transcription
Dan Garrette and Hannah Alpert-Abrams. Proceedings of NAACL 2016 - Unsupervised Code-Switching for Multilingual Historical Document Transcription
Dan Garrette, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, and Dan Klein. Proceedings of NAACL 2015
Repositories
News
- Local news story in Austin, TX about the project symposium (May 30, 2017)
- Announcement of the project’s annual report by the Program in Comparative Literature, UT Austin (February 8, 2017)
- The Colonial Remix, an online essay by Susana Sevilla Aho,
“Digital interventions like this one create hybrid reading methods that combine practices associated with digital images, traditional books, and searchable databases.”
- NEH Grant Will Transform Study of Early Books (LLILAS Benson: Aug 4, 2015)
“The University of Texas at Austin is one of six recipients of a Digital Humanities Implementation Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).”
Talks, Posters, Presentations
- Breakdowns in Machine Reading: Confronting the Constructive Limitations of Decolonializing DH, Maria Victoria Fernandez, Albert A. Palacios, Bryan Tarpley, Digital Frontiers Conference, 2017
- “Reading the First Books” Digital Demonstration, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publication (SHARP) at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, 2017
- Managing Data in a Cross-Institutional DH Initiative: Lessons from the Reading the First Books Project, Maria Victoria Fernandez, UT Digital Preservation Symposium, 2017
- Introduction to Automatic Transcription, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Brown University Library and the John Carter Brown Library, 2017 [Slides]
- Enhancing Digital Archives through Automatic Transcription of Early Modern Printed Documents, Maria Victoria Fernandez, Society of American Archivists Conference, 2016
- Machine Reading in the Mexican Colonial Archive:
OCR and the Primeros Libros,
Hannah Alpert-Abrams, ADE STS Joint Conference 2015
- Automatic Transcription in Colonial Contexts (poster), Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Dan Garrette, TXDHC 2015
- Reading the Primeros Libros: from Archive to OCR, Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Dan Garrette, American Comparative Literature Association, 2015
