The e-NDP project : collaborative digital edition of the Chapter registers of Notre-Dame of Paris (1326-1504). Ground-truth for handwriting text recognition (HTR) on late medieval manuscripts.

The e-NDP project, funded by the ANR, is led by the LaMOP (Julie Claustre and Darwin Smith).

The project's partners are the Archives nationales, the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Department of Manuscripts, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal), the École nationale des chartes and the Bibliothèque Mazarine.

The e-NDP project aims at renewing our knowledge on Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral through the creation of a collaborative digital edition of the registers of its Chapter (1326-1504, AN LL 105-128), the community of 51 canons meeting three times a week on set days to take all administrative, financial and practical decisions pertaining to the cathedral, its estate and the society living in its cloister. This corpus has never been the object of a comprehensive study to understand the workings and history of this urban enclave and powerful community. The collaborative digital edition is based on a process of handwriting text recognition (HTR), tested and supervised by scholars, researchers and engineers combining expertise in Medieval history, paleography, philology and digital humanities. The edition shall allow a better insight into the Chapter’s administration, into its economical and political power within Paris, and the relationships it maintained with other institutions in the city.