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Citizen Science in Croatian Glagolitism

This poster will present the first phase of the project Civil Science In the Field of Glagolitics: from crowdsourcing to knowledge. The Glagolitic script is a historical script, one of the three scripts used in Croatia (Glagolitic, Latin and Croatian Cyrillic, called bosanica) scripts). It was introduced in the 9th century, and was used in the Slavic countries until the 16th century, although in Croatia it was used up until the 19th century when it was fully replaced by the Latin script. This project is conducted by the Centre for Research in Glagolitism, and it is also implemented within the activities of DARIAH-HR digital research infrastructure. The aim of the project is to explore appropriate forms of public involvement in scientific research in the field of Glagolitic, which would transform the citizens from a passive recipient of the findings of scientific research conducted in academic institutions into an active research associate. The research within this project was conducted on a corpus that consists of manuscripts written in cursive form of Croatian Glagolitic script. The manuscripts were previously digitized and published on the portal in order to be available to the general public and to enable collaborative work. The possibility of participation of the general public proved to be an important component for the field of Glagolitic because there are many amateurs and researchers of Glagolitic heritage who are not part of scientific circles but can contribute to Glagolitic research in the Zadar area. Therefore, the first phase of the project involved the development of crowdsourcing scenario for gathering transcriptions of a selection of Glagolitic manuscripts. This poster will present eight-point scenario included in the first phase of the project. Special attention will be paid to the third point of the scenario, which includes the decision on infrastructure to be used to carry out the tasks (digital tools and research infrastructure). The decision was to use Transkribus tool because the aim of the Transkribus is to support all those involved in the transcription of historical, printed, or handwritten documents. It provides document capture, text recognition and image recognition and offers tools for annotating personal names and places, commenting monitoring user activities. By implementing all parts of the scenario that will be presented on the poster, we achieved the goal of the 1st phase of the project which was to engage the public in the transcription of local historical manuscripts written on cursive form of Glagolitic script. For future research, the 2nd and 3rd phases will be conducted. They include determining the propensity of project participants to participate in project activities and determining attitudes, motivation and expectations of amateurs towards crowdsourcing campaigns in the field of Croatian Glagolitics.

Digital Humanities, Crowdsourcing, Collaborative transcription system, Citizen Science

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