AI Transcription to Support Accessibility and Access for Digital Collections
Location
Sawgrass
Start Date
23-7-2024 1:30 PM
End Date
23-7-2024 1:55 PM
Description
The University of South Florida (USF's) Digital Collections is engaging human-in-the-loop AI tools to support the mass transcription of digitized handwritten primary sources. This session will provide an overview of USF's effort to achieve comprehensive, machine-readable, transcriptions for all records in the collection, with a specific emphasis on the significance of this work as a tool for improving collection accessibility for users with vision limitations or who simply struggle to read cursive. Included in this session will be an interactive demonstration with AWS Textract and READ-COOP's Transkribus.
Recommended Citation
Boczar, Amanda, "AI Transcription to Support Accessibility and Access for Digital Collections" (2024). Teaching and Learning with AI Conference Presentations. 81.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/teachwithai/2024/tuesday/81
AI Transcription to Support Accessibility and Access for Digital Collections
Sawgrass
The University of South Florida (USF's) Digital Collections is engaging human-in-the-loop AI tools to support the mass transcription of digitized handwritten primary sources. This session will provide an overview of USF's effort to achieve comprehensive, machine-readable, transcriptions for all records in the collection, with a specific emphasis on the significance of this work as a tool for improving collection accessibility for users with vision limitations or who simply struggle to read cursive. Included in this session will be an interactive demonstration with AWS Textract and READ-COOP's Transkribus.