Project: Reading Europe advanced data investigation tool
| Acronym | READ-IT (Reference Number: JPICH.DH.17.035) |
| Duration | 01/03/2018 - 28/02/2021 |
| Project Topic | READ-IT is a transnational, interdisciplinary R&D project that aims at building a unique large-scale, user-friendly, open access, semantically-enriched investigation tool to identify and share groundbreaking evidence about 18th-21st century Cultural Heritage of reading in Europe. The corpus encompassed is a rich ‘human archive’ in multiple media and languages depicting a transaction between reading subjects and reading material. Yet it is currently scattered and insufficiently labeled, thus untraceable. Without gathering, describing and structuring, it will remain unknown. Innovative tools are also needed to leverage community and critical engagement with this crucial common heritage, thereby preserving and enriching it. READ-IT will ensure the sustainable and reusable aggregation of qualitative data allowing an in-depth analysis of the Cultural Heritage of reading. State-of-the art technology in Semantic Web and information systems will provide a versatile, end-users oriented environment enabling scholars and ordinary readers to retrieve information from a vast amount of community-generated digital data leading to new understanding about the circumstances and effects of reading in Europe. |
| Network | JPI Cultural Heritage |
| Call | JPI Cultural Heritage - Digital Heritage Joint Call |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Université du Maine | Coordinator | France |
| 2 | The Open University | Partner | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Universiteit Utrecht | Partner | Netherlands |
| 4 | Institute of Czech Literature - Czech Academy of Sciences | Partner | Czech Republic |
| 5 | Centre de Recherche Nationale Scientifique -Institut de Recherche Informatique et Systères Aléatoires | Partner | France |