Towards a Datatset of Digitalized Historical German VET and CVET Regulations

Thomas Reiser, Jens Dörpinghaus (), Petra Steiner and Michael Tiemann
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Thomas Reiser: Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz, 56070 Koblenz, Germany
Jens Dörpinghaus: Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz, 56070 Koblenz, Germany
Petra Steiner: Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), 53113 Bonn, Germany
Michael Tiemann: Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz, 56070 Koblenz, Germany

Data, 2024, vol. 9, issue 11, 1-11

Abstract: The digitization of historical documents has gained particular interest in recent years in the digital humanities. The goal is to digitize historical documents by extracting and structuring text from scanned images. Here, we focus on the processing of historical German VET (vocational education and training) and CVET (continuing vocational education and training) regulations to support educational research. This dataset contains data from 1908 to the present and includes 2125 documents as PDF, 983 fully converted XML documents, and additional metadata for 7090 documents from the archive. We present an overview of the historical background and the challenges of processing different historical documents from three different federal states.

Keywords: digitization; labor market research; TEI-XML; OCR; legal texts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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