Our March 2024 Workshop Participants at the University of Basel:

Lauren Dogaer (Egyptology – Department of Ancient Civilizations) Doaa Elalfy (Ancient History – Department of Ancient Civilizations) Michèle Ernste (Classical Archaeology/Digital Humanities – Department of Ancient Civilizations) Tarek Mohamed (Egyptology – Department of Ancient Civilizations) Niccolò Savaresi (Classical Archaeology – Department of Ancient Civilizations) Audric-Charles Wannaz (Ancient History – Department of Ancient Civilizations) Danja Zimmermann (Egyptology/European Archaeology – Department of Ancient Civilizations)

Participant Tools

Transkribus

Notion

Citavi

Blender

MyMind

ChatPDF

Obsidian

Perplexity AI

ToposText

Transkribus

Danja Zimmermann (University of Basel)

Tool to transcribe documents

Transkribus - Unlocking the past with AI

• Easy to register and it’s mostly free, you pay for the text recognition with Credits ↳ Free 100 Credits/month upon sign up
• If needed frequently as a BA/MA/PhD student, you can apply for the scholarship programme
• You can create your own collections and tag documents

Functions:

• You can either transcribe your texts manually with the corresponding image uploaded on the site side by side. The automatic layout recognition aligns the lines in the image with the lines in the text editor.