Ground Truth Set for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR/OCR): Dresdner Hofdiarium 1653-56 (Mscr.Dresd.K.113) - 17th century Kurrent manuscript

Twelve pages of Ground Truth from the "Hofdiarium des Kurfürsten Johann Georgs II. 1653-1656" (SLUB Mscr.Dresd.K.K113; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133883726). The handwriting is a typical late 17th century Saxon kurrent ("Kanzleikurrent"), with occasional words written in bastarda or fraktur-like script.

Images and text have been aligned using transkribus with the default segmentation modell and manual correction in escriptorium.

The ALTO XML is provided with the jpgs of the original source in appropriately named folders. Scans have been provided by the SLUB Dresden under the Public Domain Mark: https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/id/0-1859328466 

Transcription guidelines are oriented on the DTABF-M schema (https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/doku/basisformat/manuskript.html), but have been adapted as follows:

- I and J majuscules are not distinguished
- u and v are reproduced true to the original (e.g. vnd)
- Long-s (ſ) and round-s (s) are distinguished
- sz ligature is rendered as ß in Kurrent scripts and as sz (e.g. "Libusza") in Antiqua scripts
- ij ligature is rendered as y
- other ligatures, if they occur at all, are dissolved
- r graphemes are rendered as r in their modern day form
- an m with a nasal stroke was rendered as a simple mm
- Where possible, abbreviation signs (Abbrechungszeichen) for the contemporary identification of abbreviations have been included as single letters and not marked separately. The subsequent punctuation mark (“.” or “:”) for further identification of the abbreviation has also been included (cf. also Capelli, 1928, Lexicon abbreviaturarum I, p.X) 
- Diacritics in u were not marked
- In the case of uncertain capitalization, an approximation is sought via the letter size

The dataset can be used under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. 

This transcription is part of a larger project regarding the Dresden court diaries. Check https://slub-dresden.academia.edu/StefanBeckert for further updates.