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Cultural Heritage

Cultural Heritage

Cultural Heritage

Unlocking colonial audiovisual heritage through language technologies

Unlocking colonial audiovisual heritage through language technologies

This International Research Project aims to use language technologies to aid Archives and Researchers to better approach colonial audio-visual heritage and understanding of language shifts for an improved keyword search.

Completed
Completed

PICCH

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Europe

1. Project Overview

Colonial audiovisual archives contain valuable historical information, but accessing and interpreting these collections remains a significant challenge. PICCH brings together researchers, archivists, and technology providers to explore new ways of improving access to contested colonial heritage through digital and language technologies. The project investigates how speech and language processing can support the discovery, interpretation, and analysis of audiovisual archives, helping users better understand historical narratives, language shifts, and shared cultural heritage across different European collections.

2. VoiceInteraction's Contribution

VoiceInteraction contributes language technology expertise to support access to large audiovisual heritage collections. The project explores methods for improving discoverability and accessibility through speech and language processing techniques.

3. Key Capabilities

  • Audio-visual archive analysis

  • Language technology

  • Semantic search

  • Keyword discovery

  • Heritage digitization

  • Multilingual content exploration

4. Outcomes & Impact

PICCH enables researchers, archivists, and cultural institutions to explore colonial audiovisual heritage collections more effectively. Through language technologies and semantic analysis capabilities, the project improves content discovery and facilitates access to historically significant multimedia resources.

5. Partners & Consortium

PICCH brings together cultural institutions, researchers, archivists, and technology providers to improve access to and understanding of colonial audiovisual heritage collections.

The consortium combines expertise in heritage preservation, digital archives, language technologies, and audiovisual analysis to create new methods for exploring and interpreting historical multimedia resources.

6. Project Information

Project Code

grant agreement No 699523

Funding Programme

FCT, European Union, JPICH P&P

Intervention Region

Europe

Beneficiary Entity

VOICEINTERACTION - SPEECH PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES S.A.

7. Funding Information

Total eligible cost: €1.267.185. Financial support from the European Union: €107.187,50 to be funded by JPICH P&P; €107.187,50 to be funded from own/additional funds. VoiceInteraction: 214,375.00€. Funding is requested for 50% of eligible costs, as prescribed by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia regulation. The remaining 50% is given in kind. Support logos: FCT, União Europeia.

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