Fontenay Dataset

This data set encompasses 104 images and transcriptions of digital images of original charters from the Cistercian abbey Fontenay in Burgundy (France), dating mainly from the 12th c. and until 1213. The original data set was created as part of the ANR ORIFLAMMS (ANR-12-CORP-0010) project. Texts were transcribed in the original TEI-XML format, rendering both abbreviated and expanded forms of the original text. The alignment data was produced by merging coordinates created through the Oriflamms software. A new version was prepared in March-June 2022 as part of the research for the following paper: Camps, Jean-Baptiste, Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Dominique Stutzmann, Marguerite Vernet, and Ariane Pinche. « Data Diversity in Handwritten Text Recognition: Challenge or Opportunity? » In Digital Humanities 2022. Conference Abstracts (The University of Tokyo, Japan, 25-29 July 2022), published by DH2022 Local Organizing Committee, 160‑65. Tokyo, 2022.