Adding Syriac dataset from Vienna Winterschool 2024

[cmroughan]

Hello! @ephremishac and I would like to submit the following dataset for Syriac: 140 folios of Serto from the 16th century, transcribed as part of the Vienna HTR Winter School.

Here is our dataset YAML file:

schema: https://htr-united.github.io/schema/2023-06-27/schema.json
title: ÖNB Cod. Syr. 1, Ground Truth from HTR Winter School 2024
url: https://github.com/HTR-School-Vienna/2024--Syriac
authors:
 - name: Ephrem
   surname: Aboud Ishac
   orcid: 0000-0003-2943-6556
   roles:
     - project-manager
 - name: Christine
   surname: Roughan
   orcid: 0009-0004-5999-8749
   roles:
     - project-manager
 - name: Ammar
   surname: Awad
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Carlo Biuzzi
   surname: Emilio
   orcid: 0000-0002-6108-3650
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Saranya
   surname: Chandran
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Jennifer
   surname: Griggs
   orcid: 0000-0002-7857-806X
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Polina
   surname: Ivanova
   orcid: 0009-0002-6853-2129
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Branko
   surname: Malešević
   orcid: 0009-0008-2419-6323
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Stefan
   surname: Marić
   orcid: 0009-0008-5129-1932
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Francesca
   surname: Nateri
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Ivan
   surname: Petrov
   orcid: 0000-0003-4386-0097
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Cristina
   surname: Tava
   roles:
     - transcriber
 - name: Maria S.
   surname: Thomas
   orcid: 0009-0008-1416-3499
   roles:
     - transcriber
institutions: []
description: >-
 Ground truth of 140 folios of ÖNB Cod. Syr. 1. This ground truth was produced
 by participants of the Vienna 2024 HTR Winter School, who used Transkribus to
 manually correct a preliminary automatic transcription that had been generated
 using Kraken/eScriptorium.
language:
 - syr
production-software: Transkribus
automatically-aligned: false
script:
 - iso: Syrj
script-type: only-manuscript
time:
 notBefore: '1545'
 notAfter: '1545'
hands:
 count: '1'
 precision: exact
license:
 name: CC-BY 4.0
 url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
format: Page-XML
volume:
 - metric: lines
   count: 2869
citation-file-link: https://github.com/HTR-School-Vienna/2024--Syriac/blob/main/CITATION.cff
transcription-guidelines: >-
 The segmentation of the folios followed the SegmOnto vocabulary for annotation
 of regions:


 - MainZone: the main column of text.

 - MainZone-gold: any sections of the main column where the text is written in
 gold block characters, as in the start of the text here. (The - character is a
 substitution for SegmOnto's recommended : character for declaring subtypes,
 since Transkribus did not allow for use of the colon character in the region
 name.)

 - MarginTextZone: any marginal words or phrases, including catchwords. Also
 used for interlinear glosses.

 - NumberingZone: any page or folio numbers.


 The transcription includes spaces, the Syriac letters, some diacritics,
 punctuation, and no vowel dots or markings.


 - Allowed diacritics:
  - Syome
  - Dots over feminine suffix heh
  - Dots in pronouns: above for demonstrative, below for personal
  - Dots in verbs: to distinguish participles and perfects
  - Dots to distinguish homographs
 - Excluded diacritics:
  - Vowel dots
  - Dots of hardening and softening (qushoyo and rukokho)

 Punctuation marks were not normalized, but rather transcribed as they appear
 in the manuscript (. ܆ ܇ : ܀).


 Transkribus's unclear tag was used when readings were uncertain or the text
 was damaged or unclear.

[cmroughan]

Following up -- the dataset is now available on Zenodo in addition to the Github repository. Since the image file count/size seems to use up Github's monthly bandwidth rather quickly, I would update our submission to change the value for url:

• old version: url: https://github.com/HTR-School-Vienna/2024--Syriac
• new version: url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14714089