Print Proofs Gottfried Semper HTR Dataset

This dataset contains gold standard transcriptions of print proofs from ca. 1855-1863. The pages contain both printed text and handwritten text in German Kurrent and Latin script. The majority of the text is in German with occasional additions in Greek, Latin, French, and English. The handwritten text is in lead and in ink, the vast majority come from the hand of Gottfried Semper (1803- 1879), German and Swiss architect and art theorist. These transcriptions were created for later processing and publication as part of the Semper Edition, www.semper-edition.ch. The transcription work was completed between October 2017 and July 2023. The printed text was recognised with OCR inside Transkribus with ABBYY FineReader and manually corrected. The handwritten annotations were transcribed manually by a human transcriber. The long German “s” (“ß”) has been transcribed as “ss”. Other orthographic specificities of the time of creation were transcribed verbatim. This work was undertaken as part of a project “Gottfried Semper. Style. Critical and commented edition” conducted over the period 2017 - 2028 jointly by the Università della Svizzera Italiana and the ETH Zürich and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The documents transcribed here are preserved within the fonds of the gta Archives at ETH Zürich. In this folder you will find sub-folders containing page-xml and alto-xml transcriptions. Each sub-folder represents a document as it is described in its archival context. The images of the transcribed documents are not included in this dataset but are available over IIIF. Each XML file contains a URL for the corresponding image. In the PAGE files this is found as part of the Metadata element and in ALTO files - as part of the sourceImageInformation element.