Jedidiah Morse, The American Gazetteer (Boston 1797) [Ground Truth]

This dataset contains the digitalised text of Jedidiah Morse's <em>The American Gazetteer</em> (Boston 1797). The text was digitalised using scans provided by the John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library (<a href="https://archive.org/details/americangazettee00mors" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>) and the HTR software <a href="http://www.transkribus.eu/" target="_blank">Transkribus</a>.<br><br>

This dataset contains the Ground Truth files, the transcriptions that were manually created in order to train the Transkribus HTR model. The files are available in several formats (plain text, TEI/XML, ALTO word, ALTO line, and Transkribus PAGE/XML).