The Historic 1911 Scotland’s Census Handwritten Records And Data Enhancement

Tender description

This project aims to digitise circa 4.75 million hand written Scottish vital events records from the 1911 census. 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. Lot 1: 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 1911 project aims to digitise circa 4.75 million hand written Scottish vital events records i.e. births, marriages and deaths. 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 & Death records dating from 1911 which will then be used to create a research database.. Project set-up and transcription must be completed within 12 months from Contract start. Manual transcription services will be required. OCR technology will not be suitable for this work As the data is sensitive all transcribers must be direct employees of any successful bidder, no subcontracting allowed.