Overview of the virtual transcription laboratory usage scenarios and architecture

Abstract

This chapter outlines findings from the final stage of development of the Virtual Transcription Laboratory (http://wlt.synat.pcss.pl, VTL) prototype. VTL is a crowdsourcing platform developed to support creation of the searchable representation of historic textual documents from Polish digital libraries. This chapter describes identified usage scenarios and shows how they were implemented in the data model and architecture of the prototype. Last chapter presents current usage of the portal and the results of basic benchmarks conducted in order to assess performance of transcription process in VTL.