middle-ages-in-spain

HTRomance, Medieval Spain corpus of ground-truth for Handwritten Text Recognition and Layout Segmentation ===================== characters badge regions badge lines badge files badge

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 Latin 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 in the Journal for Open Humanities Data. The paper provides specific details about the selection process, the transcription methods and choices, as well as details about the 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 called data/. Each subfolder of data/ corresponds to a single manuscript, identified by its shelfmark.

Shelfmark Links Range Type Century Color Pages Main Zones Lines Characters Genre Content
BnF, esp. 256 📁 5r-8r prose 13 ✓ 7 7 257 12871   Fuero Juzgo
BnF, esp. 480 📁 27r;39r;48r prose 13 ✗ 3 3 80 11143   Documents relatifs à l’hôpital de Burgos
BnF, esp. 36 📁 1r-3v prose 14 ✓ 6 13 471 14544   Libro del caballero Zifar
BnF, esp. 563 📁 51v-55r prose 14 ✗ 4 8 238 11786   Canon d’Avicenne
BnF, esp. 44 📁 10r-12r prose 14 ✓ 5 10 433 12924   Légende dorée
BnF, esp. 65 📁 1r-6r prose 14 ✗ 6 22 739 16780   Fors de Navarre
BnF, esp. 440 📁 xr-yv prose 14 ✗ 4 16 355 8233   Siete Partidas
BnF, esp. 285 📁 1r-6r prose 15 ✗ 6 12 296 7100   El linaje donde bienen fijos e fijas de don fray Fernand Perez de Ayala
BnF, esp. 98 📁 1r-4r prose 15 ✗ 4 9 244 11967   Ordinacions fetes per lo molt alt senyor en P[ere]
BnF, esp. 229 📁 2r-6v mixed 15 ✓ 10 16 446 12096   Laberinto de Fortuna et gloses
BnF, esp. 110 📁 1r-3r prose 15 ✓ 5 6 181 12897   Suma de los reyes de España
BnF, esp. 533 📁 1r-4v prose 15 ✓ 8 8 226 8511   Bursario
BnF, esp. 368 📁 2r-6r prose 16 ✗ 5 7 156 7587   Dialogos de los grados de perfecion..
BnF, esp. 548 📁 1r-5r prose 16 ✗ 5 9 184 6624   Ordonnances des consuls de la mer
BnF, esp. 225 📁 5r-8v vers 16 ✓ 8 9 198 5790   Chansonnier catalan

Metrics

Total number of pages

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Funding

This project was funded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France through the 2022 project calls from Datalab for 2023.

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.