Did you say Tesseract? Your frustrations with OCR/NER are echoed in digitalization efforts everywhere. Projects like awesome-ocr could help to discover and keep track of tools & methods.
What, overengineering? We used Excalidraw and Etherpad to brainstorm, but it was a good old-fashioned pen & paper that helped us to focus the ideas and agree on our deliverables!
"We are on track" - would not expect less from the pros! Would love to see some screenshots & works in progress in the log.
Nice to hear that you're expanding the approach to other continents and cultures. The OKFN network could be helpful here.
hard work only!query for Simon to download and extract the field "id" https://api.europeana.eu/record/search.json?wskey=api2demo&qf=DATA_PROVIDER%3A%22Museum+of+World+Culture%22&qf=contentTier%3A%281+OR+2+OR+3+OR+4%29&query=proxy_dcterms_provenance%3A*&profile=minimal&rows=24&start=1
Thanks to our colleagues at the next table we have found our focus and fresh motivation! Nobody is too keen on the name though 😅 ideas welcome!
App is deployed on huggingface
https://huggingface.co/spaces/sgpeytrignet/europeana-data-explorer
https://europeana.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DB/pages/2195062803/Visual+brand+guidelines
our visual brand guidelines
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* dribs n. pl.: in small amounts, a few at a time