+ The READ project comes back to Germany

The partners in the READ project will come together for an all-staff meeting in Passau, Germany from 20-22 September 2016.  The meeting will be hosted by Passau Diocesan Archives, who are one of the Large Scale Demonstrators in the project.

The first part of the meeting will be an open session where archivists, librarians and scholars can find out more about the READ project.  We will learn about the sacramental registers held by Passau Diocesan Archives and show how handwritten text recognition technology is being applied to these documents in the Transkribus platform.  Project participants will also provide a summary of the other data sets which form part of the READ project and explain how research competitions will encourage computer scientists to contribute to the improvement of our tools and technologies.

The rest of our time in Passau will be an opportunity for the project partners to discuss the next phases of our work. We will meet as one group and collaborate in smaller working groups to explore our different research priorities.  We are also happy to have the chance to explore Passau, the town known as Bavaria’s “three river city” where the rivers Inn, Ilz and Danube meet.


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Passau Diocesan Archives

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