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Project

READ

Title Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents
Grant Agreement Number 674943
Funding Programmes H2020
Budget Total: €8,220,716.25, EC Contribution: €8,220,714.50
Dates 01/01/2016 - 30/06/2019
Project URL http://read.transkribus.eu/
Scientific Domain e-Infrastructures
Type Of Project RIA
Abstract The overall objective of READ is to implement a Virtual Research Environment where archivists, humanities scholars, computer scientists and volunteers are collaborating with the ultimate goal of boosting research, innovation, development and usage of cutting edge technology for the automated recognition, transcription, indexing and enrichment of handwritten archival documents. This Virtual Research Environment will not be built from the ground up, but will benefit from research, tools, data and resources generated in multiple national and EU funded research and development projects and provide a basis for sustaining the network and the technology in the future. This ICT based e-infrastructure will address the Societal Challenge mentioned in Europe in a Changing World namely the "transmission of European cultural heritage" and the "uses of the past" as one of the core requirements of a reflective society. Based on research and innovation enabled by the READ Virtual Research Environment we will be able to explore and access hundreds of kilometres of archival documents via full-text search and therefore be able to open up one of the last hidden treasures of Europe's rich cultural hertitage.
Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country, EC contribution to budget) 		Universität Innsbruck, Austria, (€1,118,150.00)
Partners
(Organisation name and Country, EC contribution to budget) 		The Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, (€459,900.00)
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN, Austria, (€836,437.00)
UNIVERSITAET ROSTOCK, Germany, (€811,248.75)
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS", Greece, (€682,201.00)
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, Spain, (€675,100.00)
UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG, Germany, (€614,600.00)
KANSALLISARKISTO, Finland, (€532,750.00)
DIREKTION DER JUSTIZ UND DES INNERN, Switzerland, (€293,125.00)
DIOZESE PASSAU, Germany, (€283,000.00)
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, United Kingdom, (€729,383.00)
XEROX SAS, France, (€589,126.00)