Financing
To rescue 20th Century press archives from the Armenian diaspora
The Samuelian oriental bookstore, founded in Paris in 1930, is a famous intellectual center of the Armenian diaspora. Since its closing down in 2016, the newspaper collections stored inside have been inexorably deteriorating. Over the years, the condition of the documents has worsen increasingly. With the support of the Samuelian family and the financial support provided by the Gulbenkian Foundation, Calfa has carried out a rescue operation on site.
Education
Workshops about AI and cultural heritage for students in Armenia
Our team is privinding educational workshops about AI and cultural heritage in Armenia, as guests of the TUMO Center of Yerevan, a free school for young people aged 13 to 20. For two weeks, TUMO students take part in an IT project related to Armenian heritage, develop data science and machine learning skills, and learn how to use and customize the main AI technologies.
Financing
In Venice, to digitize Mekhitarists' letters archives
For centuries, the Mekhitarist Fathers of Venice have been spearheading intellectual discussions throughout the world, as scholars and publishers, from their island of San Lazzaro. The extensive correspondence from the congregation, dealing with subject such as political history or the Armenian diaspora, constitutes original unpublished testimonies of the major transformations of recent history. To facilitate its study for both the Mekhitarist Fathers and other researchers, full text recognition was achieved for more than 6,000 pages from this correspondence, dating from 1750 to 1900, thanks to Calfa OCR models, purposefully developed to that end.
Partnership
Free Calfa OCR access for researchers members of the AIEA
As part of the partnership between the International Association of Armenian Studies (AIEA) and Calfa, the researchers members of the AIEA have the possibility to benefit from the service of text recognition in Armenian offered by Calfa for free (300 pages) throughout 2025.
