Hisdoc 2.0: Toward Computer-assisted Paleography

HisDoc 2.01 is a research project on textual heritage analysis and is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). It builds on the groundwork of the HisDoc2 project, which concentrated on automated methods for codicological and philological studies. The objective of HisDoc 2.0 is computational paleographical analysis, or more specifically, the analysis of scripts, writing styles, and scribes. While the first project aimed at analyzing simple layouts and the textual content of historical documents, HisDoc 2.0 will be dedicated to complex layouts, including fine-grained textline localization and script analysis. Furthermore, semantic domain knowledge extracted from catalogs available on databases such as e-codices3 or manuscripta mediaevalia4 is incorporated into document image analysis. In HisDoc 2.0, we perform fundamental research to facilitate the development of tools that build on existing expert knowledge and will support scholars from the humanities who are concerned with examining and annotating manuscripts in the future.

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