Overview
[AI Summary]: This research article presents “Minna de Honkoku” (みんなで翻刻), a collaborative crowdsourcing platform developed by Kyoto University for transcribing pre-modern Japanese historical documents written in cursive script (草書体/kuzushiji). The platform addresses the challenge that less than 0.01% of modern Japanese can read historical documents by integrating collaborative learning mechanisms with AI assistance. Since its launch in 2017, the platform has attracted over 4,100 participants who completed transcriptions of 2,300+ documents (41 million characters total). The study demonstrates how combining public participation, expert guidance, and AI technology creates an effective model for cultural heritage digitization and knowledge democratization.
- Author: Hashimoto Yuta (橋本雄太), Ooi Junzo (大邑潤三), Kano Yasuyuki (加納靖之), Nakanishi Ichiro (中西一郎), Hamano Mirai (濱野未来), Jiang Hui (translator, 江晖)
- Year: 2025
- Publication: Digital Humanities Research (数字人文研究), Vol. 5(02), pp. 88-109
- Language: Chinese (translation from Japanese)
- DOI: CNKI:SUN:SZYH.0.2025-02-006
- Platform URL: https://honkoku.org/