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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Visual Programming-Based Interactive Analysis of Ancient Documents: The Case of Magical Signs in Jewish Manuscripts
Authors : Parth Sarthi Pandey, Vinodh Rajan, H. Siegfried Stiehl, Michael Kohs
Published in: Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
This paper presents an interactive system for experimental ancient document analysis applied to the specific use case of the computational analysis of magical signs, called Brillenbuchstaben or charaktêres, in digitized Jewish manuscripts. It draws upon known theories as well as methods from open source toolboxes and embeds them into a visual programming-based user interface. Its general design is particularly aimed at the needs of Humanities scholars and thus enables them to computationally analyze these signs without requiring any prior programming experience. In the light of this, the web-based system has been designed to be e.g. interoperable, modular, flexible, transparent and readily accessible by tech-unsavvy users regardless of their background. The paper further discusses a paradigmatic user study conducted with domain experts to evaluate this system and presents first results from those evaluations.