Transcribathon.eu: AI supporting collaborative transcription and enrichment of historical documents

This paper presents the Transcribathou.eu tool and Europeana Transcribe, a citizen science initiative which aims at crowdsourcing transcription and enrichment of historical documents made available through the Europeana.eu platform. The public value of this work is internationally recognized through the honorary mention1 awarded within the scope of European Union Prize for Citizen Science. The process for performing a complete digitization of historical documents is described together with AI technologies used for analyzing document content, generating semantic enrichments, clustering and visualizing documents by their topics.