Using a research project as classroom support the case of digital preservation of degraded historic manuscripts at the University of Buenos Aires School of Engineering

Abstract

The last 20 years we have been developing a project on digital preservation of degraded historic handwritten documents in cooperation with the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr E. Ravignani” devoted to history research. This projects objective was the research and development of algorithms, tools, models and workflow to extract information from the images. This information was used to generate descriptive metadata and to provide a structured access to the historic archive. During the time we worked in the project, we decided to include the experiences and a reduced complexity version of the required tasks in the subjects we and other colleges are in charge at our University. This incorporation is in addition of using the project as a source of thesis and final work assignments. In this paper we will detail parts of the project and the modification of some tasks and requirements done to make them suitable as learning challenges.