An Infrastructural Solution for Digital Publication starting from Automatic Layout and Text Recognition: Insights from Italian Literary Journals

The creation, preservation, processing, publication, and querying of complex textual resources require adopting a methodological framework that is both universally applicable and tailored to specific domains. Its broad design promotes a widespread (re)usability, while domain-specific features ensure effective imple- mentation. This work describes (the refinement of) an integrated environment for automatic text and layout recognition that relies on the use of the tools ZoneRW, Kraken and eScriptorium. Previous experiments have been undertaken within the framework of the COVerLeSS, a historical-philological and linguistic investigation project of the literary magazines of the late 19th century of Italian Verismo. The publication of the text transcriptions in TEI Publisher together with the collections of related digital images makes the digitization process reusable and interoperable.