Kristina Wagner: Implementing a Scalable Handwriting Text Recognition (HTR) Program at LNDL

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Kristina Wagner is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Loyola Notre Dame Library (LNDL).
LNDL has a great deal of correspondence and diaries in the archives including a prefect diary from 1856 documenting the comings and goings of Jesuits at Loyola. Currently, all transcription is done by hand. Utilizing this diary as a test case, Kristina used Transkribus to transcribe the handwritten text. This transcription is then utilized in Neo4j to build a network of these Jesuits. This work can be further expanded upon to tie into work being done at Loyola investing ties to the GU272 descendant community.