Research Infrastructures, or How Document Engineering, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities can Go Together.

ABSTRACTResearch Infrastructures (RIs) are one of the key concepts in Horizon 2020, the European Commission's Research programme. A budget of EUR 2.7bn is available for projects under the RI programme. The talk will describe some of the main characteristics of RIs and introduce the H2020 Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project which is dedicated to setting up a highly specialized service platform and making available some of the state-of-the-art technology in pattern recognition and document engineering, namely Handwritten Text Recognition, Automatic Writer Identification, and Keyword Spotting. Archives and libraries, as well as humanities scholars and the general public will be enabled to use the service platform which will improve access to cultural heritage, advance research in humanities and encourage a broad audience to investigate their personal family history.