Syriac Transcribathon 2024
Applications for participation

WHAT: The Princeton MARBAS initiative and the ERC MiDRASH project are organizing a hybrid transcribathon on Syriac manuscripts. Data produced will be open source and freely shared as far as image rights permit.

HOW: We will be working to produce a sufficient quantity of transcriptions for manuscript images in order to support the training of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) computer models for Syriac, which can be used to automatically produce text from manuscript images. Familiarity with technical tools is not required. We will have tasks like layout classification, manual layout segmentation annotation, automatic layout segmentation correction, manual transcription, correction of automatic transcription, catalogue enrichment, and application of automatic pipelines for alignment.

WHEN: 25-28 March, 2024.

WHERE: Participation remote or in person in Princeton (food will be provided for accepted applicants). 

DEADLINE: CLOSED for in-person registration; registration remains OPEN for remote registration

Organized by
Christine Roughan (U Princeton), George Kiraz (IAS, U Princeton, Beth Mardutho), Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (AOrOc, EPHE-PSL)


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I can participate on the following dates
(we will work roughly between 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. EST but you do not need to be there all the time and certain tasks can be performed outside this time zone)
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If you will be in-person: do you have any dietary restrictions?
I am interested in working with your teams on Syriac manuscripts also after this week
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I would be interested in an eScriptorium tutorial (4h)
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Possible programming skills (none are needed)
If you have any datasources (digital books, etexts, manuscript images, etc) to share please indicate them here
If you are familiar with Syriac, which scripts can you read?
Please describe very briefly your motivation, special interests, wishes and/or aims.
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Supported and funded by the 
- Princeton Manuscripts, Rare Books, and Archival Studies (MARBAS) initiative
- Princeton Near Eastern Studies department
- Princeton Center for Digital Humanities
- European Union (ERC, project number 101071829). The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) alone and do not necessarily represent the views of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for the expressed views.
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