Objective
"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."
Field of science
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/software/system software/operating systems
- /social sciences/media and communications/library science/public libraries
- /social sciences/media and communications/library science/archives
- /humanities/other humanities
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/artificial intelligence/pattern recognition
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/data science/natural language processing
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/artificial intelligence/computer vision
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/data science/data exchange
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/artificial intelligence/computational intelligence
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-EINFRA-2015-1
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
Participants (15)
46022 Valencia
WC1E 6BT London
15341 Agia Paraskevi
1040 Wien
00171 Helsinki
WC1E 7HU London
1015 Lausanne
18055 Rostock
Participation ended
93420 Villepinte
8090 Zürich
04109 Leipzig
94032 Passau
69100 Komotini
75002 Paris
EH8 9YL Edinburgh