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Dublin City Council would like to announce that it has been selected to receive major European Commission funding to help unlock handwritten documents from the 19th Century and make them available to the public.
Dublin City Libraries and the Digital Repository of Ireland are part of a pan-European consortium selected for funding of almost €1m for their project EnrichEuropeana+.
Currently there is a wealth of information about 19th century history available in archives but only in handwritten form and because of that it cannot be accessed on a large scale. In order to make this information available to a larger audience the project will digitise important handwritten documents and use a combination of Artificial Intelligence and contributions from members of the public acting as ‘Citizen Scientists’ to transcribe these handwritten documents.