BREAKING NEWS!THIS IS THE DAY THE AMSTERDAM CITY ARCHIVES CHANGES THE WAY WE SEARCH FOR INFORMATION IN HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS.From the new website:Amsterdam City ArchivesSearch here for the first time in detail hundreds of thousands of handwritten pages from the Amsterdam notarial archives of the 17th and 18th centuries. This collection contains the results of the project "Crowd Leert Computer Lezen", in which volunteers made and corrected transcripts in order to train computer models in Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR): the independent decryption of historical manuscripts. The set contains both human-controlled transcripts and the automatically generated HTR. Crowd Learns Computer Reading (2018-) is a project of All Amsterdam Deeds of the Amsterdam City Archives.The new technology has been developed in a close cooperative effort between the Amsterdam City Archives and Transkribus.https://transkribus.eu/r/amsterdam-city-archives/...Search is simple: click on "Zoeken" = search. Clicking on "Zoek Opties" gives you the possibility to change fuzzy low, middle or high. Clicking on a result opens a new tab with the original, and the transcription.Try, for instance, the Dutch name for Morocco: Barbarije.It's not perfect, but to a high degree reliable. The results are mostly in Dutch, but there are also English, French, Spanish, Portuguese deeds. This technology or course has wider implications beyond the Dutch context.https://transkribus.eu/r/amsterdam-city-archives/...TRANSKRIBUS.EURead&Search - Amsterdam City ArchivesTRANSKRIBUS.EURead&Search - Amsterdam City Archives