Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | CrossAsia and HKUST Launch Collaboration on Manchu OCR

Veröffentlicht am: https://blog.crossasia.org/manchu-ocr/

The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | CrossAsia has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to collaborate on the OCR processing of its Manchu collection. A Major Manchu Collection and a New Collaboration The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin holds one of the world’s largest Manchu collections, comprising around 550 titles. Following several years of digitization efforts, nearly the entire collection has now been digitized. To date, 406 Manchu works in 584 volumes have been made openly accessible through the Digitized Collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. (For a brief history of the…