Historic cipher mapping

[Mark Knowles]

This is a recent email that Beata from DECODE sent me on the subject when I enquired about whether DECODE had a strategy for getting permissions from archives to make their ciphers publically available:

"Hi Mark,

Some archives give permission while others (the most) do not. We cannot make images public if we do not have the permission from the archives. They earn lots of money on the images although they should not as these are our cultural heritage…. But we try to transcribe the original images and make those publicly available, at least. Also, we develop transcription tool to make transcription faster and more reliable. It is ongoing work and I hope we can present it next year. 

Happy new year!

Bea"