Search in metadata and structural data

Unlike the art trade catalogues of German Sales the material presented via HAI is not printed text, but predominantly handwritten sources. An overarching full-text search in the inventory and acquisition books – generated with the help of text recognition software (OCR) – is therefore not yet possible.

However, it goes without saying that the full-text search realised using AI-methods (e.g. eScriptorium) is on our agenda. This also applies to the integration of existing transcriptions (e.g. for the inventory books of the) into the comprehensive search or the implementation of further indexing or annotation projects.

The search mask offered here currently only allows a search in the recorded metadata and structural data (tables of contents). Please, also use our browsing access.