Ocular, el sistema de transcripción utilizado por el proyecto Reading the First Books, se desarolló como un prototipo experimental. Una de nuestras metas fue facilitar el uso de Ocular a través de un proceso de trabajo que mejoraría la interfaz de usuario,…
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Reading the First Books joins the Early Modern OCR Project
Ocular, the automatic transcription tool used by the Reading the First Books project, was designed as a prototype to test experimental models. One of the goals of the project was to make Ocular more user-friendly by integrating it into an OCR workflow…
New Tools for Modernized Transcription
[Español] The goal of the “Reading the First Books” project is to design and implement tools for the transcription of the Primeros Libros collection of books printed in New Spain in the sixteenth century. One of the first tasks we faced when we…
NEH Grant Will Transform Study of Early Books
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). The grant of $215,000 will fund “Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early-Modern OCR for…
