Preserving history in ORKA - a citizen science workshop

The Open Repository Kassel - ORKA for short - is the University of Kassel's online archive for the digital provision of manuscripts, letters, estates, photos, music, journals, monographs and maps. Valuable historical holdings, mainly from the State Library and the Murhard Library of the City of Kassel, are added there daily and made available free of charge to researchers and interested users from all over the world.

To ensure that the handwritten texts in particular can be read by all users, they have to be transcribed manually, as the majority of the documents already accessible on ORKA were written in outdated scripts such as Kurrent or Sütterlin. During the event, participants will learn about the interface and editing options of the ORKA online archive. After an introduction to the digital collection, there will be an opportunity to practise transcribing letters, postcards and other documents, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, and to digitally record the results for posterity.

Help us to preserve history!

Participation is free of charge. Registration is not required.