The ΛΑΓΩΟΣ team has produced a 10-minute video in collaboration with the University of Innsbruck’s Public Relations office. The video tells the story of the Greek manuscripts at the heart of the project and the team’s on-going research that aims to make the texts accessible to a wider public, both in Greek and in English

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The University of Innsbruck has just released a 10-minute video introduction to the TRANSKRIBUS tool. The TRANSKRIBUS platform offers digitisation, AI-powered text recognition, transcription and search capabilities of historical documents. Alongside the READ-COOP (a group developed out of digital humanities experts at the Univesity of Innsbruck) and two other projects, the LAGOOS project is featured

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On Saturday 3rd September 2022, an article about Hase’s Greek diaries and the LAGOOS project was published in the Austrian newspaper Die Presse. The article offers an overview of the surviving text, a sketch of Hase’s life in the French capital and the research programme of the LAGOOS project over the coming years. The German

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William will base his project entitled “A Life in Ancient Greek: The Secret Diary of K. B. Hase (1780–1864)” (with the acronym: LAGOOS) at the Institute for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Innsbruck. The aim is to study the previously unknown diaries of classicist and byzantinist Karl Benedikt Hase, a central

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The LAGOOS project uses the read-COOP’s handwritten text recognition software TRANSKRIBUS to assist with the transcription of Hase’s manuscript diaries. The TRANSKRIBUS model designed for Hase’s heavily abbreviated Greek hand is named after the project and is currently in its fourth iteration. Alongside the project’s collaboration with TRANSKRIBUS for this fundamental work towards the digital

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