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 ### Dataset Summary
 
-The Danish handwriting dataset is a Danish-language dataset containing around 3200 pages of proofread handwritten text.
+The *Danish handwriting* dataset is a Danish-language dataset containing around 3200 pages of proofread handwritten text.
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+The dataset is constituted by the published minutes from a number of City and Parish Council meetings, all dated between 1841 and 1939.
 
 
 ### Languages
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 ### Data Instances
 
-Each data instance describes and represents a single scanned, segmented and transcribed physical page with handwritten text.
-The handwriting originates in 
+Each data instance represents a single scanned, segmented and transcribed physical page with handwritten text.
 
 
 ### Data Fields
 
-List and describe the fields present in the dataset. Mention their data type, and whether they are used as input or output in any of the tasks the dataset currently supports. If the data has span indices, describe their attributes, such as whether they are at the character level or word level, whether they are contiguous or not, etc. If the datasets contains example IDs, state whether they have an inherent meaning, such as a mapping to other datasets or pointing to relationships between data points.
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 - `id`: an integer representing the unique id of each page
 - `image`: a jpeg image containing a scan of the original physical page
 - `title`: a string containing both the title of the book/protocol to which the page belongs, plus an optional page-range, indicating which document-chunk the page belongs to  
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 ### Contributions
-Many thanks to the many volunteers that have participated in the segmentation, trancription and proof reading of the archives!
+First of all, many thanks to the many volunteers that have participated in the segmentation, trancription and proof reading of the archives!
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+The following parties and foundations have contributed financially to making this project possible:
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+- The Organization of Danish Archives (ODA)
+- The digitization of parish council minutes from Aarhus has been paid for by the Arhus Municipality Archives Committee
+- Region Midtjyllands kulturpulje for 2019
+- The Augustinus Foundation, The Louis-Hansen Foundation and the Velux Foundation
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+- The Danish National Archives has provided scanning equipment for the sub-project “Roots of Democracy”.
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-- **Point of Contact:** [Claus Juhl Knudsen](mailto:[email protected])
+**Point of Contact:** [Claus Juhl Knudsen](mailto:[email protected])