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Unfortunately, none of the records related to the glassworkers life events under consideration in this study have been added yet. To test the employability of Transkribus as a non-expert user, a handful of 17th-century documents in Swedish were run through Transkribus [@transkribus] by the author to identify the location of a glassworks in Pärnu, Estonia. These records did not yield results that were hoped for but using Transkribus did speed up the process, even if the transcribed text needed corrections.

Despite the current lack of records related to the key life events of the glassworkers via the Transkribus engine on the NAE homepage, the archive has used family name indexes compiled in the 1960s–1980s at the present-day Estonian Ministry of the Interior’s IT and Development Centre Department of Population Services based on church books which were kept until the 1940s. Although many congregations have preserved church records already from the 18th century and some even from the 17th century, the church law legislated keeping church books only from 1834 onwards so the coverage varies across Estonia [@puss2024]. For this study, the focus was on the Kärevere-Laeva region which housed the largest number of Estonian glassworks from the mid-18th until the 20th century [@reppo2024, pp. 35]. This means studying the church books from this area – Kursi and Kolga-Jaani parishes – was predicted to be the most advantageous exercise.
Despite the current lack of records related to the key life events of the glassworkers via the Transkribus engine on the NAE homepage, the archive has used family name indexes compiled in the 1960s–1980s at the present-day Estonian Ministry of the Interior’s IT and Development Centre Department of Population Services based on church books which were kept until the 1940s. Although many congregations have preserved church records already from the 18th century and some even from the 17th century, the church law legislated keeping church books only from 1834 onwards so the coverage varies across Estonia [@puss2024]. For this study, the focus was on the Kärevere-Laeva region which housed the largest number of Estonian glassworks from the mid-18th until the 20th century [@mythesis, pp. 35]. This means studying the church books from this area – Kursi and Kolga-Jaani parishes – was predicted to be the most advantageous exercise.

The indexes mentioned above are based on these records and list the last name with the relevant church book page numbers. Their digitisation was started in 2005 by the Estonian Association of Genealogists, taking advantage of researchers’ strong interest in this material [@puss2024]. Members and other volunteers thus digitised these indexes but also added their own indexes to this collection. The NAE complemented these surname indexes with a search engine which allows searching by date, parish, and last name. Over the years, the system has been developed to allow users to add image numbers which direct researchers to the correct image (page) in the digitised church book. Maiden names have also been partially indexed. The archive has now upscaled the use of this external help, crowdsourcing the indexing for specific thematic projects occasionally.

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Further information about the glassworkers and their family members was collected from the Digital archive of Estonian newspapers [@digar] which is managed by the NLE. As the newspapers available via this database were published from 1811 with some earlier exceptions. Unlike NAE, this collection employs Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The use of OCR for these records did significantly speed up the process of research. There were obviously errors, for example where OCR was unable to detect the layout of the text or where the print ink had bled. The database allows corrections from users. As the author of this study did correct the errors in recognised characters in the sources used for this study, future searches for other researchers should be less error-prone.

## Publication
Publication of raw datasets in Estonian archaeology is a new phenomenon and has been particularly rare for material culture studies which this study was a part of [@reppo2024, pp. 38]. In addition to adhering to FAIR principles, the publication of this dataset is tied to an unusual situation – the author is the only archaeologists in Estonia studying post-medieval glass. In fact, three large datasets were published as part of this dissertation – one on archaeological finds [@reppo2023a], another on the workers [@reppo2023b], and a third one the glassworks themselves [@reppo2023c] to avoid research monopoly and encourage other researchers to study the post-medieval glass industry in Estonia.
Publication of raw datasets in Estonian archaeology is a new phenomenon and has been particularly rare for material culture studies which this study was a part of [@mythesis, pp. 38]. In addition to adhering to FAIR principles, the publication of this dataset is tied to an unusual situation – the author is the only archaeologists in Estonia studying post-medieval glass. In fact, three large datasets were published as part of this dissertation – one on archaeological finds [@reppo2023a], another on the workers [@reppo2023b], and a third one the glassworks themselves [@reppo2023c] to avoid research monopoly and encourage other researchers to study the post-medieval glass industry in Estonia.

The raw dataset was published Open Access under a CC-BY 4.0 licence via DataDOI, a free data repository which is managed by the University of Tartu library which provides the dataset with a persistent interoperable identifier. As mentioned above, the dataset of life events is tabulated and has 22 columns and 1,249 lines. It is accompanied by a metadata file which includes details on the project, the references, and other information relevant to the raw data.

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