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Royal archives of the Pāṇḍuraṅga, a precious collection for deciphering the historical stories of the Chams
The ANR ChamDoc project takes up the technological and scientific challenge of creating programs for the automatic recognition and analysis of handwritten documents from ancient Champa, located in the south of modern Vietnam.
Its aim is to catalog, transliterate and translate documents dating from the 7th to the 19th century. The project involves several thousand documents and uses artificial intelligence to automatically read the texts. The Royal Archives of Pāṇḍuraṅga, documents written in ink on very fragile paper and dating from the 18th century, constitute one of the most valuable collections for this study. It is kept at the Société asiatique in Paris, a key partner in the project.
This report was produced and funded as part of the "Sciences Avec et Pour la Société" (SAPS) call for projects.
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