METADATA.yml

schema: >-
  https://github.com/tboenig/gt-metadata/tree/master/schema/2022-03-15/schema.json
title: reichsanzeiger-gt
url: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/reichsanzeiger-gt
authors:
  - name: Kamlah
    surname: Jan
    roles:
      - project-manager
      - support
  - name: Schmidt
    surname: Thomas
    roles:
      - project-manager
      - quality-control
  - name: Bartz
    surname: Franziska
    roles:
      - transcriber
  - name: Costa de Sousa
    surname: André
    roles:
      - transcriber
  - name: Ochkovskij
    surname: Sergej
    roles:
      - transcriber
  - name: Öztürk
    surname: Dilara
    roles:
      - transcriber
description: >-
  Reichsanzeiger-gt provides ground truth for the historical German newspaper
  "Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger" (German Imperial
  Gazette and Prussian Official Gazette), which was published under changing
  names from 1819 to 1945. The ground truth dataset provides PAGE-XMLs and URLs
  for the corresponding newspaper scans/images. The dataset contains 117 single 
  pages (119.435 lines) of ground truth.
project-name: >-
  OCR-D "Workflow for work-specific training based on generic models with
  OCR-D   and ground truth enhancement"
project-website: >-
  https://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/projects-of-the-university-library/ocr-d-modelltraining/
language:
  - eng
  - fra
  - deu
  - por
  - lat
  - ita
script:
  - Latn
  - Latf
script-type: print
time:
  notBefore: '1820'
  notAfter: '1939'
hands:
  count: more-than-3
  level: levelmix
license:
  - name: CC0 1.0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/zero/1.0/
gtTyp: data_structure_and_text
format: Page-XML
sources:
  - reference: ''
    link: 'link: https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/periodika/reichsanzeiger/'
volume:
  - metric: lines
    count: 119435
  - metric: pages
    count: 197
transcription-guidelines: >-
  The transcription rules are based on the OCR-D transcription guidelines Level
  2 with some exceptions (see below No. 2):


  1) Special characters:

  - Long s (ſ)

  - Currency symbols: German Mark (ℳ) and Pfennig (₰), $, £

  - Fractions (¼ ½ ¾ ⅐ ⅑ ⅒ ⅓ ⅔ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞)

  - R rotunda (ꝛ)

  - Combining Latin Small Letter E for old German Umlaut ( ͤ )

  - Dagger (†)

  - Black Right Pointing Index (☛)

  - Black Left Pointing Index (☚)

  - Superscript Numbers 0-9 (⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹)

  - White square (□)


  2) Additional characters transcribed true to original (contrary to OCR-D Level
  2):

  - Double oblique hyphen (⸗)

  - Em dash (—) instead of En dash (–)

  - Asterisk (*) used for both standard asterisk (*) and tear-drop asterisk (✽)