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Crowdsourcing for Digital
Te Creation in non-Latin
Scripts
A case study in Ottoman Turkish
with OTurC
19 May, 2022
Suphan Kirmizialtin New York University, Abu Dhabi
Fatma Aladag Leipzig University
Elif Derin Can Marmara University
OttomanTurkishCrowdsourcing(OturC) in Zooniverse
Ottoman Turkish
-Arabic script language of the Ottoman Empire(1299-1920)
- Ottoman Turkish was supplanted by a “Turkified” version in 1928
-Ottoman Turkish in modern day Turkey is a dead language
Ataturk introducing the “New Turkish Alphabet” in 1928
OttomanTurkishCrowdsourcing(OturC) in Zooniverse
OturC advances a shareable and
reusable digital corpora creation
agenda for Ottoman Turkish (OT)
and contributes to the
improvement of the accessibility
of the Ottoman cultural heritage.
Crowdsourcing Cultural and Historical Collections
British Library
https://www.bl.uk/projects/crowdsourcing-at-the-br
itish-library#
Transcribe Bentham, UCL
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
Library of Congress
https://crowd.loc.gov/
Stanford University Archives
https://content.fromthepage.com/stanford-university-archives/
https://crowd.loc.gov/
OttomanTurkishCrowdsourcing(OturC) in Zooniverse
Crowdsourcing historical and cultural
heritage collections offers volunteers
opportunities:
- to actively contribute to history writing and
collective memory-building processes
- to engage with cultural collections in a
meaningl way that goes beyond content
consumption
OttomanTurkishCrowdsourcing(OturC)
Goals and expected outputs:
-Training data for HTR
-TEI publication/ scholarly edition production
-Sharable and reusable computable te production
-Pedagogical uses
-Community building
Conclusion(s)
- promises and limitations of computable corpora creation and Big Data methods for the
Ottoman archive
- absence of a standardized, algorithmic systems-friendly romanization scheme for OT
-the need to build a shareable and reusable knowledge creation infrastructure for Ottoman
studies
- ethical concerns about the little-acknowledged informal labor market in Ottoman Studies