 Next up are two guests who traveled here from very far away, from Canada. And the two speakers are Dominique de Landre from the University of Montreal and her colleague Maxime Goyer from the University of Quebec in Musquie. And they will be talking about transcribous as a techno-social tool. And the social aspect, as I think has become abundantly clear by now, is very important to us as a cooperative. So the floor is yours. So both of us are leading large research projects in partnership that derive directly from transcribous and definitely is opening the doors of the ivory towers to the citizens. Today we will show how transcribous has become a true social, a techno-social tool. First, that will be my part, I will show you how transcribous and my two, the two partnerships that I have called donner le goût de l'archif, but I'm not here. No, doesn't work. Okay, donner le goût de l'archif, give a taste of the archives and the other partnership that derived from this one is called the making of Montreal history. And these two partnerships has created the exchange and spaces of sociability between the academic museum and the citizen world. Then Maxime will present the achievement of Nouvelle-France Numérique, which is here, and show how with the help of volunteer citizens, he has achieved a highly efficient HDR model and developed Modus operandi to link the academics and the citizens. What I do here. I'm trying to reconstruct the past in this digital age with my two big project and it's gathering a lot of students. It's why I ask you the question that are working for their own research, but work with us, we pay them. There is a kind of scholarship. So, transcribous is everywhere in my research, my teaching, the crowdsourcing, and also what we call cultural mediation, aim at the general public that is the whole world of the museums. Personal research is Europe and America in the 16th and 18th century, the French space, especially, so French, France and its colony, women and gender history, intersectionality history, imperial studies and history of slaves, slaves, many slaves. So I came to transcribous because it was a problem of reading. I was looking for women in front of the justice and as you can see this was one of the first page of the first register in the judicial archives that after all my years in the archives, I couldn't read. And what is very fun is that finally we break, we broke the hand of this crazy writer and with the model, and I discovered that the very first act in front of the justice in Montreal was led by a woman. So I couldn't read it at the beginning but that's it. So I was very glad. So what we try to do is we are transcribing, we are creating models, but then we use the data that we found in our archives to do social history and to bring the student in history towards every steps of the way towards the citizen. So, and you'll see how we'll do it. Our association with transcribous creates spaces of exchange and sociability between the academic and citizen world, but also it goes on to my dismay, bigger and bigger. It grows and diversified in a kind of sprawling manners. And it's going on still. And I show you what is going on. So, as I told you, I'm going through from the traces that we find all the details and everything in the archives to cultural mediation. So in my two big project that were founded by our national founding society, I don't know if it's a shark anyway. I'm doing my personal research, but I teach also I have two, three courses actually one courses at the B level here. Based on transcribous and AI. Also, at the third level of the BA, I'm doing interest, I supervise internship in my partner, like the museum, the archives, local archives also. So it's a good formation. So right now I have the people working in here in the notary archives in religious archives in the General Hospital of Montreal, educational archives in La Congréation Notre-Dame, doing translating French indigenous dictionaries of the 18th and 19th century. And this is a associations with indigenous band councils. So it's very enriching. And also internship in archeology because the traces that we find in our archives leads to archeological finds that are shown after in the museum. So this is a teaching and the transcribous is of course in the core of it. And then this is the work that I'm doing with my student, a very big student group. And we are transcribing the archives pertaining to Montreal. This is judiciary archives, the parish archives, the notary archives, the state archives, maps and plan and indigenous dictionaries. And we have many basis, unique basis, I have to say databases in Quebec. One is called le programme de démographie historique, historique de démographie database, which allow us to retrace all the settlers from the very beginning of the colony in the 17th century to almost today. So you can, it's a genealogical way of doing things. So I'm just trying to find here. So you type the name. Yesterday, he was talking about somebody very weird name. So I went to this base. And here he is, his wife, second marriage. And if I click on the first marriage, I will have all his children. And these children are, do you say something? For a second interrupt to put this small window away because it's across the time. So this is a unique base, which is very great. The other base is called a demand. So this is why I was so interested by the project of Gunther, because we, we take all these people that we found in the archives. And we go and we can see where they lived. And we can, with the mapping and georeferencing, georeferencing, it's a bit complicated for me to pronounce. We can trace where, for example, in my case, what I'm doing right now about slaves, where did the slaves, indigenous and black slaves, lived in Montreal. So I'm retracing them. It's huge. So I want to go back to my crazy thing. So, yeah, this is it. Sorry. Okay, so when we decided to work together with Maxime and others, I decided to create what I call the permanent workshop of documentary analysis and crowdsourcing here. We call it La Patelier. At first it was theory in the morning and practice transcribous in the afternoon. But then we realized that we really need formation. So we transform ourselves in ambassadors of transcribous, among any kinds of people touching the archives. So I've been given a seminar to a formation and introductory seminar to, for example, the National Indigenous Council. We have been in the, among the National Archives, of course, but even a novelist came to me to be able to work with transcribous. So we discovered that we had to diversify the workshop. So we do ad hoc. So people ask us, we go and zoom or whatever. And then we decided to do a summer school that will, we are three university link, a summer school that will alternate between our university is here. So last year and June, last June, it was in Rimouski. And the next year it will be in Montreal. So I invite you all to come because we will talk about the people of Montreal, and we have a specific, there's really a specific scope on management data, data management on the one hand and crowdsourcing also how we work. And you see the public of this summer school, we tie the summer school to a conference, AI, and we can reach academics, qualified staff of the museum and et cetera, and general public. And then that was the formation up to bottom. And then we realized that, whoa, there was a lot coming back from the bottom. So we, I create, well, oops, we create the iPad, the citizen science bottom up. So we have three level now transcription, because that was asked. So it's based on volunteer and students that wants just to be there and transcribe and we improve actually the work of transcribes doing this. But also, in my course, the second level at the BA, and the university, the results of the student was, it was a very brand new course, and the result was so good that I decided to bring seven of them to a big, the big conference in history in Quebec. But then they are in the second year, second year VA level, you know, so I decided to create an iPad history right now that is going on. And we meet with this little group of people interested by transcription, paleographers, genealogists and everything. And these people from the public, they listen to these new students, you know, they are new in the career, and they are presenting their paper. So it's like around, how do you say, a gala de se for them, they try their finding on the people, and we'll go in the end of October in front of the real big history society. So it's the kind of scientific committee based on crowdsourcing and historian, and also the museologists that are there, because they are in the second year of MA, and they will take the finding of the historian and transform it into a virtual exhibition, an exhibition, a podcast, archeomatics and everything. And for that, they will be formed during the winter, iPad museology, and they will be here. They will be formed in this iPad museology next winter. So we will give all this the product to the museum that will show them in 2024. So here is, as you see, the many, the many, many link that we have done with from transcripts from the very first paper that I show you the transcript, to right now it's sprawling literally in the world. As you see, Transcubus is at the center of all these endeavors, and proved to be a true techno social tool, which bridge not only the academics and the non-academics, but also old and new generation of any kind interested in the making of history. And now I said the parole to my colleague. Thank you. Yeah, as Dominique said, we both made a major project in history in Quebec. Sorry. On my side, I'm the director of Nouvelle France Numérique, or Digital New France, if you prefer, which is a research project that was launched in 2019 with, with funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It unites dozens of researchers, including Dominique and all her partners, interested in new friends around the world and follows the objective of studying processes and networks of information flow by analyzing intertextuality in a manuscript document. To achieve this goal, the project aims to centralizes all new friends document transcriptions produced by several researchers in order to make these searchable and interoperable with textometric tools. Right from the start, Transcubus was the tool that made this project realistic and possible, and was our main centralizing platform, allowing us to work collaboratively. As we needed to get access to digital images of archives. We also encourage establishment establishing partnership between researchers and archive centers so the archive centers became totally part of the project. And in the third place, all this was designed to help us find philological links between documents, which was impossible up to now with archival materials. After three years, the project has achieved transcribing over has transcribed, sorry, over 100,000 pages, and it is now developing into a new partnership called Transcreer la Nouvelle-France for transcribing new friends. Building on the research on the results, sorry, of Nouvelle-France numérique, Transcreer la Nouvelle-France aims to develop a public repository allowing to associate transcriptions to database through linked open data for archive or description and named entities and make all these transcriptions available to the public and researchers. It also seeks to enable development of a high tools to enrich transcription and analyze documents. And finally, it aims to unite documentary heritage dissemination with research that I'm an agent. So here is the link with our summer school in that I'm an agent research management. Indeed with our public repository we want to establish a new kind of partnership between archive centers, researchers and the public in order not only to make research data. Available to public open and available to public sorry, but also to keep these data open to continuous enrichment by researchers because research that has are produced. They are planned to be stocked on research repository, but freeze. So we want to keep these data. Alive so that people can work on them constantly and enrich correct transcription and rich with metadata. This is quite a task as it opposed in some way it is opposed to in some way to traditional archive centers approach the dissemination of their collections up to now archive centers have been quite free to open their, their websites to collect data that can change the they always want finished data to be available to public. And if we start producing huge amount of data, these data won't be finished and they will never be closed and perfect so we have to find another way to work together. I thought it was not planned at the beginning of the project participatory science has become a fundamental element of digital new friends with the integration of the garden team about a year ago. The other nut is an old French word that design a French office created in the middle age to keep the minute of contracts transcription obligation, etc, and which was likely merged into the office of notary. The integration of this component was a real bottom up process, as it were the volunteers who express their interest in contributing their expert, their expertise to the current scientific research in order to further develop their skills and the garden that are self supporting organization self organizing group structure to answer that the polygraphers can work without depending on the constant supervision of researchers. So we discussed that they were, they needed to be able to work by themselves because if we were always involved in correcting and reviewing the work they were doing. We would consume more time in supervising their work than doing our research. So, participants are organized into work teams based on their respective experience and skills so that newcomers can be introduced to the workings of the group, the work protocols and the challenges associated with the type of documents that the current research is addressing. This system has major benefits for volunteers it provides pedographers with place to practice their favorite hobby, while making a tangible contribution to the advancement of research. It also provides an opportunity to network with other pedographers outside the usual circle of their local genealogical and historical societies. In the context of the pandemic, this need has been particularly acute. The team operates on the principle that of pairing more or less experienced polygraphers in relatively small teams, the members divide the work of lay out segmentation of documents transcription markup and revision, according to their respective skills and preferences also the wide variety of files that could be handled makes it easier makes it easy to recruit members with a wide range of skills and interest. Thus, yeah, perfect. Rather than being lost expertise in calligraphy is growing around the population. Eventually the group even hopes to offer sponsorship service for history students to help them develop their calligraphy still skills sorry for study project in in collaboration with professors. In addition, because the group operates relatively independently members are able to draw on other talents to improve the group's effectiveness and increase its impact. Some people will project many with project management experience are involved in structuring the groups activities others more familiar with computers are involved in developing the website and various tools to facilitate the work of the teams and ensure the specific flow of information at all levels in particular to avoid unnecessary duplication of work and communication with the researchers. Here you have an example of the website that they developed. Here, they are asking their volunteers to take snapshots of the different letters that they find in the Notarial Archives for one specific writer, and they concentrate all the information into their website so all the members can go to the website and have the information for. The, the advantage of the benefits of is of participatory science sorry without is important to researchers, because without having to organize and manage workflows, work planning task allocation review and correction, we can still use citizen science. It also allows the development of highly accurate recognition model very quickly. In this regard, the current objective of the garden at is to prepare the data for training models adapted to the most important series of notarial archives of who's registers often contains more than 2000 pages, sometimes around 1000 10 thousands, but not more than that so we will have to develop a lot of models and to be very precise and very acute. So we are starting a project to find out exactly the point where you reach the the highest level of efficiency for investing time and investing yourself in developing a model, but having the more acute model without going too far in investing time, money and participation so we have figured out, for instance that if you make small models, increasing the iterations is really not important if in fact it's worse. We have figured that after 100 or 150 epochs, you go very bad in your in your models. The most important thing is to increase the number of words into your data set, and also to have a good base model, which allows you with very few pages to get really high scores and also another important thing is to make a good sample of the documents into your collection to have a good variety of documents with a good lexicon that will be reproducible on your data. This can increase by twice the efficiency of model. So we hope to arrive soon with more precise data on this and thank you for your attention. Hello. Thank you for your very interesting talk where you've shown how to connect different stakeholders around historical documents which is also something that the read cooperative is all about. Are there any questions. Anything you would like to know. In regards to a pad, the permanent workshop. So you, you had three different segments of it the museum connected the, the students at the university and the summer session is that correct. They're all linked together so so if it is a student enrolled in a transcript this course during the school year and then completes the summer session and then presents their materials. They can do all three. Any other questions. Okay, sorry in advance it is not a transcript was related question at all, but I'm very interested you mentioned that you were able to locate where some minorities in Montreal, we're living and you reference it and how very able to do so. Like, do plots or houses have house numbers or not because in my own experience I know if there are no house numbers it's very challenging to locate plots in the city. Because we had in New France it was a signal or a system, and we have we call, we call it this literally the Montreal. So we know exactly where this owner has his land in the city, and also we have this database unique in the world also because one of the things that I didn't tell you that in all this project what we are going to do is create a link between all these database that we showed you, and we will have only one portal. You could have you type the name of somebody and then up his archives will come in your end transcription will come in your in your computer. And what is fantastic with this development that we're doing with the map, the mapping. It's incredible. It's really incredible because, well I can talk to you about that in more details but it's on the way. To complete her answer about Terry, seniority were mapped also in 17th and 18th century so they were georeferenced. Okay. So, to understand this correctly the names of the landowners are connected with the parcels right. Oh, okay, so it's right in the document. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Wow, that's interesting. Yeah. Cool. Okay, then I think we need to move on to our last talk for this section. Thanks again. Wait just a second, please.