HOME-Alcar: Aligned and Annotated Cartularies

The HOME-Alcar (Aligned and Annotated Cartularies) corpus was produced as part of the European research project HOME History of Medieval Europe (https://www.heritageresearch-hub.eu/project/home/), led under the coordination oflinebreakof Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (PI: D. Stutzmann), with the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (PI: E. Vidal), the National Archives of the Czech Republic in Prague (PI: J. Kreckova), and Teklia SAS (PI: C. Kermorvant)<br> The HOME-Alcar (Aligned and Annotated Cartularies) corpus is a resource created to train Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Named Entity Recognition (NER), and presents a collection of<br> (i) digital images of 17 medieval manuscripts;<br> (ii) scholarly editions thereof;<br> (iii) coordinates linking images and text at line level;<br> (iv) annotations of Named Entities (place and person names).<br> The 17 medieval manuscripts in this corpus are cartularies, i.e. books copying charters and legal acts, produced between the 12th and 14th centuries.