Pysar
main voice: chancery papers, parish registers, confession lists
Handles most Cyrillic files. When the handwriting is illegible, it relies on how such documents were usually written.
Many texts. One Supriaha.
A book is read once — and used by everyone
Today the same archival file is read by each person separately, and each pays for the reading all over again. Yet the text is the same, and someone already has it ready. Supriaha is the place where it lies ready for everyone.
- 10,094
- books in the catalogue
- 2,871,709
- folios read
- 10,529
- independent readings
- 22
- members
How it works
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1Asks before reading
Nyshporka checks your file against the catalogue. If the text exists, it downloads it ready-made and lays it over your scans.
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2Reads if there's nothing
The machine reads the scans on your computer. The images go nowhere: only the text goes into the package.
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3Shares if you allow it
With your consent, what has been read goes to Supriaha. By default nothing is shared: some of us paid for the photography.
Who reads
The text in Supriaha was read by Nyshporka's models. Each book's catalogue entry shows which one exactly; you can filter by it in the catalogue.
Diak
second voice: sticks to the pixels where the first one fills in the gaps
Reads the same script as Pysar, but stays closer to the strokes themselves. The two voices are compared: where they differ, it's worth looking at the folio.
Skryba
Latin script: notarial records and Catholic parish books
A separate script and separate material: Latin entries from notarial records and Catholic parish books, which the Cyrillic models don't handle.
Good to know
- This is a draft for searching, not a publication. The text was read by a machine and contains errors. Once you find a surname, look at the folio itself in the source — the folio number is linked to the scan.
- There are never any scans here. Only the text and the folio numbers travel.
- The text licence is chosen by the contributor — by default CC0-1.0, no restrictions.
- A contribution is visible straight away, marked “not checked”; checking by eye happens in a separate queue.
Rules, licences and complaints about publications — in detail on the project page.