Uncovering censorship in the 16th century with Transkribus and Python. Episode III: Normalizing 16th century raw text
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3 septembre 2021
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Markus Müller, « Uncovering censorship in the 16th century with Transkribus and Python. Episode III: Normalizing 16th century raw text », Digital Humanities Lab, ID : 10.58079/nl5z
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by Markus Müller Visiting a museum as a kid, I sometimes wondered why I could hardly read anything in the medieval or early modern books and manuscripts displayed in the exhibition. Even after I learned Latin in school, the situation did not improve. I was not aware that people in former centuries used a lot more abbreviations than today, especially in Latin texts. As long as paper (or parchment) was very expensive, scribes and printers tried to save as much space as possible. Therefore, a s...