The three-day, in-person training event gives a comprehensive overview on how to use Wikisource, Transkribus, and related open digital humanities, infrastructures, methods, and tools to create, improve, publish, and reuse texts from cultural heritage collections.
The programme responds to a growing need for practical and sustainable ways of working with historical texts and dictionaries. It presents Wikisource not only as a transcription free and open-access platform, but also as a useful environment for research, teaching, and public engagement. Beyond powerful OCR models, Wikisource fully integrates the Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tool Transkribus, which has an agreement with Wikimedia to provide free access within the Wikimedia ecosystem.
A special feature of the school is its focus on dictionaries and other documentary heritage, especially in Portuguese, Latin, and other European languages. Participants will take part in hands-on activities such as transcription, proofreading, text structuring, editorial practice, metadata work, and examples of reuse for corpora and dictionaries.
By the end of the school, participants will know how to transcribe and proofread texts in Wikisource, use basic editorial and metadata methods, understand how Wikisource can support research and teaching, and plan small reuse projects for cultural heritage and dictionary materials. Participants will also learn how to integrate citizen-science elements around Wikisource projects, turning transcription and proofreading into welcoming public-engagement activities that create real scholarly value.
A limited number of scholarships are available for participants travelling from more than 100 km from Porto, Portugal. Scholarship funding is generously provided by DARIAH ERIC and Wikimedia Portugal. The maximum number of participants is 30.
Application deadline: To apply for a scholarship - 30 August. Financial support not required - 14 September. Registration form.
Workshop providers
Nicolas Vigneron
Ana Salgado
André Barbosa
Hervé Baudry (CHAM, NOVA FCSH)
Organization
CODA - Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation
CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
CLUP - Centro de Linguística UP
Instituto de Filosofia - UP
CITCEM / FLUP
Humanities Lab - American Corners
SDI - Serviço de Documentação e Informação da FLUP
FLUP - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
NOVA FCSH
University of Montpellier
Dariah DHWiki Working Group
Wikimedia Portugal
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
DARIAH ERIC
