NEH Awards Grant for Advancing Persian and Arabic Manuscript HTR to Roshan Institute at UMD NEH Awards Grant for Advancing Persian and Arabic Manuscript HTR to Roshan Institute at UMD | Matthew Thomas Miller
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Matthew Thomas Miller


Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities; and an affiliate of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities


NEH Awards Grant for Advancing Persian and Arabic Manuscript HTR to Roshan Institute at UMD NEH Awards Grant for Advancing Persian and Arabic Manuscript HTR to Roshan Institute at UMD | Matthew Thomas Miller

NEH Awards Grant for Advancing Persian and Arabic Manuscript HTR to Roshan Institute at UMD

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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 $324,571 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 PI Miller’s Twitter thread here.

Also, please see the official NEH announcement.