Dear all,
Within the HIMANIS project, funded by the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change” (JPI-CH) of the European Union, the partners are developing cost-effective solutions for querying large sets of handwritten document images. With IRHT and A2iA (France), the Universities of Valencia (Spain) and Groningen (Netherlands) as well as the French National Archive, it gathers Computer Science, Humanities and Cultural Heritage institutions in order to produce technology to generate new, research-based knowledge from historical manuscripts. As a challenging and particularly interesting case study, we have indexed the large collection of the Trésor des Chartes’ registers produced by the French royal chancery (Paris, Archives Nationales, JJ7 – JJ209).
*Now we are proud to announce that you can search the plain text in the Trésor des Chartes’ registers and provide feedback http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/himanis/: It is ready to be used and tested by all interested users worldwide!* http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/himanis/
http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/himanis/ This is a prototype and beta version, which will be amended and will change over the next months, with new functionalities (navigate through hits, display of abstracts and editions) and with additional volumes to be indexed from the French National Library and the National Archive..
The project website is: http://www.himanis.org/ The search interface into the corpus: http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/ himanis/ http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/himanis/ Additional explanations about the interface: https://himanis.hypotheses. org/105 https://himanis.hypotheses.org/105
You can search with boolean operators and word sequences (for the syntax, check on https://himanis.hypotheses. org/105 https://himanis.hypotheses.org/105)
You can help us measuring the precision of our results: - please click on highlighted hits to confirm whether the word is correctly spotted or not; - please double click on a missed hit if you see it on the page (it will be added to the index for all users to search from the next day)
Two simple examples as a beginning: - "scriptor" within the whole corpus: http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/ himanis/index.php?q=scriptor& t=10&feedback=1 http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/himanis/index.php?q=scriptor&t=10&feedback=1 - "pelerinage" on one page : http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/ himanis/index.php/ui/show/ chancery/147/853?q=pelerinage& t=50&feedback=1 http://prhlt-kws.prhlt.upv.es/himanis/index.php/ui/show/chancery/147/853?q=pelerinage&t=50&feedback=1
The complete indexing results from an automated, image analysis process. You may find unexpected or false hits: for example, abbreviations are expanded automatically and it is needless to say that they are error-prone; likewise place and person names are slightly less well spotted. You can enhance the hit list by setting the "confidence" rate (between 0 and 100).
We hope that you will be as thrilled as we are to present these results and we invite you to test, give feedback and send further comments, critics and suggestions to himanis@irht.cnrs.fr!
Best regards
Dominique Stutzmann –– M. Dominique Stutzmann Chargé de recherche à l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (CNRS, UPR 841)