The Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD) is proud to announce that we have received a Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant in the amount of $282,905 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for our project entitled, “Automatic Collation for Diversifying Corpora: Improving Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script Manuscripts.” Matthew Thomas Miller will serve as the Principal Investigator of this project, with David Smith serving as the co-Principal Investigator.
For more information on the ACDC project and how it fits in with PersDig@UMD and the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative’s other projects, please see here and a thread on PI Miller’s Twitter thread here.
Also, please see the official NEH announcement.