Digital Local History
I·01 · Dimension of Paper · Open for collaboration
Your municipality’s history is not lost. It is sitting in a cardboard box.
Tens of thousands of photographs and documents wait in parish cellars and office cupboards. We bring them into the light — and into the search engine.
Problem
Parish, municipal and private archives age faster than anyone reads them. Residents have no access, and some of it disappears for good.
FTI
A 600 DPI scan, AI reading of historic handwriting, description, and a map of places and events. One public repository with search by meaning — on local servers, without the cloud.
- 1 200 scans a day — target throughput
- 600 DPI — scan standard
- 3 months — estimated rollout
- Q3 2024: Digitisation standards: 600 DPI, OCR of archival handwriting, GIS mapping
- Q1 2025: First consultations with partner municipalities and parishes
- Q3 2025: Pilot validation of the method on local collections
- Q2 2026: Final standards and rollout package
- Q3 2026: Recruitment of 3 pilot municipalities
- Q4 2026: First public online repository
- 2027: Package for replication in further municipalities
Fundacja Tradycji i Innowacji · KRS 0001049849 · NIP 7123459248 · REGON 525955729 · Józefów 58A, 21-050 Piaski · biuro@ftii.pl
