Elena Nieddu

Elena Nieddu, a PhD student at Roma Tre University, dives into her fascinating project, "In Codice Ratio," which aims to transcribe and annotate documents from the Vatican Secret Archive using machine learning. She discusses the challenges of traditional OCR and shares innovative strategies for improving accuracy in transcribing medieval manuscripts. Elena also highlights the unique crowdsourcing initiative involving high school students in Italy, empowering them while enriching the project with quality annotations. This intersection of history and technology promises to unlock hidden treasures of knowledge.