Abstract Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology is now a mature machine learning tool, becoming integrated in the digitisation processes of libraries and archives, speeding up …
Uniting methods from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, this hands-on guide develops a novel approach to doing document analysis. The authors present a …
Historians make research queries on Google, ProQuest, and the HathiTrust. They garner information from keyword searches, carried out across millions of documents, their research …
Mass digitisation and the exponential growth of born-digital archives over the past two decades have resulted in an enormous volume of archives and archival data being …
HS Jensen - Media History, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
For centuries, understanding archives has been key to historians' work. Within the last decades, the increasing availability of sources in digital archives has fostered a growing …
G Zaagsma - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Much has been made in recent years of the transformative potential of digital resources and historical data for historical research. Historians seem to be flooded with retro-digitized and …
This work presents an enriched version of the Parish Memories (1758–1761), an essential Portuguese historical source manually transcribed. It is enriched with annotations of named …
In a 1999 review essay for the New York Review of Books entitled “The New Age of the Book”, the distinguished historian Robert Darnton at that time acting president of the …
HK Smyth, J Nyhan, A Flinn - Digital Scholarship in the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article seeks to reorientate 'digital oral history'towards a new research paradigm, Multimodal Digital Oral History (MDOH), and in so doing it seeks to build upon Alistair …