Downloading and Installing the TRANSCRIPTION ASSISTANT

You need to install a small java program to make the system work on your internet-connected computer. We are planning to make the Transcription Assistant (TA) application compatible with the Java Web Start Technology, so that the TA and the most recent version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) can be downloaded with a single click.

For now, if you don’t have JRE already installed, click here and follow the directions to install Java Runtime.

Then download the most recent version of TA, which will self-install and start automatically.

To run TA again in the future, you will just need to double click on the TA.JAR file wherever you have chosen to save it in your hard drive at download time. You may want to create a desktop shortcut to the JAR file for quick access to TA in the future.

Since TA is a work in progress, you may occasionally experience slow-downs or other difficulties accessing our Emergent Systems Lab servers. If that happens, try again at a later time.

If you computer is not connected to the internet, none of this will work, of course.

For more information about TA, read Making History: an Emergent System for the Systematic Accrual of Transcriptions of Historic Manuscripts which was presented at the 8^th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR1005) in Seoul, South Korea.

For questions you can contact Prof. Fabio Carrera, director of the Emergent Systems Laboratory.

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