Data services

Tender description

This Digitising Scotland project aims to digitise between 18 and 24 000 000 hand written Scottish vital events records i.e. births, marriages and deaths, since 1856. The records have already been scanned and will be made available via a web interface into which the transcribed data will also be manually inputted by the successful bidder. The project objective is to allow research access to individual-level information. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) intends to inform the market of a future contract opportunity. The University of Edinburgh has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to create a multidisciplinary research database from historical vital events records. This Digitising Scotland project aims to digitise between 18 and 24 000 000 hand written Scottish vital events records i.e. births, marriages and deaths, since 1856. The records have already been scanned and will be made available via a web interface into which the transcribed data will also be manually inputted by the successful bidder. The project objective is to allow research access to individual-level information. The University will be seeking a supplier to manually transcribe these handwritten images of Birth, Marriage and Death records dating from 1856 to 1973 which will then be used to create a research database.