AI Assist in FromThePage: Using HTR in People Centered Transcription

How can artificial intelligence be used to support humans instead of replacing them?
This presentation demonstrates how we integrated Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) into the FromThePage crowdsourcing platform while keeping the central role of humans in the transcription process.
We asked ourselves how can we introduce enough friction into our user interface that volunteers have to think rather than blindly trusting machine generated data, while still using AI to speed up their work and increase their pleasure? Our focus lay on enhancing user experience rather than on character error rates or model training.
We will discuss design considerations, implementation specifics, and the initial outcomes of user testing conducted by the State Library of New South Wales and their Digital Volunteer working group.

[@debbiepaul9383]

Marvelous, thanks Sara and Ben. Love to see the development of Transkribus tools (after learning about it all those years ago in the iDigBio AOCR Working Group). And it's inspiring to see how you're thinking about and developing workflows and well-thought-out UIs for this work. Kudos!

[@alejorojas4569]

Interesante!