medieval-italian

HTRomance, Medieval Italian corpus of ground-truth for Handwritten Text Recognition and Layout Segmentation

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Introduction

This ground-truth dataset has been carefully built around the idea of having generic data for building a strong and reliable model for HTR of Italian manuscripts. Each manuscript should have around 10 columns (5 bi-columns pages or 10 pages of single column).

Data follow the Segmonto guidelines.

[!NOTE] The repository contains two XML files per image. The ones suffixed with .chocomufin.xml are normalized in order to be compliant with other datasets following the same guidelines. The others are more specific to this repository. We recommend using the normalized documents.

Credits

Transcription guidelines

The transcription guidelines are described in a paper available on HAL and published at the Journal for Open Humanities Data. It provides specific details about the selection process, the transcription methods and choices, as well as details about output (mainly the Generic CREMMA Model for Medieval Manuscripts (Latin and Old French) for Kraken)

Data

ALTO and images can be found in the directory data. Each subfolder of data corresponds to a single manuscript, identified by its bookshelf.

Shelfmark Folder Biblissima Range Type Century Color Main Zones Lines Characters Genre Content
BnF Ita 912 🔗   2r-6v prose 14 ✓ 5 94 1613 prose Cataloghi di prezzi delle merci
BnF Ita 783 🔗   12v-17r prose 14 ✓ 5 157 6398 prose Dandolo, Cronica
BnF Ita 434 🔗   1v-3v prose 14 ✓ 5 185 8576 prose Marco Polo, Il Milione
BnF Ita 590 🔗   16r-18r prose 14 ✓ 10 454 9377 poésie+prose Virgilio, Eneide (volgarizzamento)
BnF Ita 79 🔗   54r-56r vers 14 ✓ 11 423 11773 poésie Dante, La divina commedia
BnF Ita 481 🔗   41r-43r prose 14 ✓ 10 512 15667 prose Boccaccio, Filocolo
BnF Ita 594 🔗   25r-29v vers 15 ✓ 5 244 5132 poésie El Sinibaldo
BnF Ita 70 🔗   81r-85v vers 15 ✓ 7 338 7361 poésie Dante, La divina commedia
BnF Ita 583 🔗   41r-43r vers 15 ✓ 10 373 9909 poésie Boccaccio, Teseida
BnF Ita 1534 🔗   91-100 vers 16 ✓ 10 181 4179 poésie G.B. Strozzi, Rime
BnF Ita 820 🔗   2r-6v prose 16 ✓ 5 125 4680 prose Vita di Cola di Rienzo (et alia)

Metrics

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Funding

This project was funded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France through the 2022 project calls from Datalab.

Cite the project

Clérice, T., Chagué, A., Gille-Levenson, M., Brisville-Fertin, O., Pinche, A., Camps, J., Fischer, F., Boschetti, F., Guadagnini, E., Guilhem Couffignal, G., Canteaut, O., Romary, L., Reboul, M., Perreaux, N., Poibeau, T., Smith, M., Norindr, J., Glaise, A., Navas Farré, M., Bordier, J., Leroy, N., Alba, R., & Rubin, G. HTRomance [Data set]. https://htromance-project.github.io/

@misc{Clerice_HTRomance,
author = {Clérice, Thibault and Chagué, Alix and Gille-Levenson, Matthias and Brisville-Fertin, Olivier and Pinche, Ariane and Camps, Jean-Baptiste and Fischer, Franz and Boschetti, Federico and Guadagnini, Elisa  and Guilhem Couffignal, Gilles and Canteaut, Olivier and Romary, Laurent and Reboul, Marianne and Perreaux, Nicolas and Poibeau, Thierry and Smith, Marc and Norindr, Jade and Glaise, Anthony and Navas Farré, Marina and Bordier, Julie and Leroy, Noé and Alba, Rachele and Rubin, Giorgia},
title = ,
url = {https://htromance-project.github.io/}
}

Infrastructure

This project relied on the CREMMA infrastructure.

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