From manuscript to the word
from 01/01/2025 until 31/12/2025
Are you passionate about poetry, cultural heritage or digital technologies? We invite you to take part in NUK's Citizen Science volunteering project, where together we will improve the readability and accessibility of the manuscripts of Srečko Kosovel held in the Digital Library of Slovenia, which are currently without machine-readable text (txt).
Initial optical character recognition (OCR) was performed by the artificial intelligence tool Transkribus, which automatically recognises manuscript records. But no AI understands poetry, or handwriting, like humans - so we need your help to make manuscripts searchable and more widely accessible.
With your help, we will put the words Kosovel wrote more than a century ago back into lines that are readable, searchable and accessible to everyone.
Aim
To create and publish publicly available transcriptions of all
digitized manuscripts by Srečko Kosovel, making them reusable, machine readable
and accessible to everyone.
How to participate
You will receive a package with 10 manuscripts (image + text) and clear instructions.
You can correct the text line by line - you also get an edition of Kosovel's poems and Wikivira files as help.
In case you are not sure if you have read the word correctly, mark it with ??word??. For completely unreadable words, mark ????.
(Submit corrections and a short report when you have finished.)
Your transcription will be checked by at least one other sharp eye.
If you wish, we will list you publicly among the participants - with your name and surname.
Needed equipment
Computer
About funding
Funding bodies: none
Funding program: None
