Beyond the Platform: APIs as part of the Workflow

The project 'Forschungsportal BACH' builds a comprehensive online repository that provides access to all surviving documents of the Bach family of musicians - the most influential family dynasty in music history - from the late 16th to the early 19th century. For the first time in the history of Bach research, the materials preserved in libraries, archives and private collections will be digitally recorded, indexed, processed, annotated and made available via an online portal.

For this purpose we do not only digitise the documents we want to present as a digital edition but in most cases the whole bundle or at least large sections of it. The pages will be automatically transcribed with Transkribus and made available online through a full text search.

The talk will cover our workflow from the image to the finished transcription, highlighting the different modes of interaction with Transkribus, both by humans and computer.