+ Conference at Archives Nationales
University College London presented at a conference at the Archives Nationales in Paris on 16 March 2016.
Researchers from France, the UK and Ireland came together to share ideas on using crowdsourcing for collaborative transcription and digital scholarly editing. Louise Seaward gave an introduction to the READ project and explained how handwritten text recognition is being used by volunteers working on UCL’s Transcribe Bentham initiative.
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