Archives and AI: An overview of current debates and future perspectives

G Colavizza, T Blanke, C Jeurgens… - ACM Journal on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The digital transformation is turning archives, both old and new, into data. As a
consequence, automation in the form of artificial intelligence techniques is increasingly …

Understanding the application of handwritten text recognition technology in heritage contexts: a systematic review of Transkribus in published research

J Nockels, P Gooding, S Ames, M Terras - Archival Science, 2022 - Springer
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 …

[图书][B] Doing document analysis: A practice-oriented method

K Asdal, H Reinertsen - 2021 - books.google.com
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 …

[图书][B] The transformation of historical research in the digital age

I Milligan - 2022 - cambridge.org
Historians make research queries on Google, ProQuest, and the HathiTrust. They garner
information from keyword searches, carried out across millions of documents, their research …

Archives, linked data and the digital humanities: increasing access to digitised and born-digital archives via the semantic web

A Hawkins - Archival Science, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Digital archival literacy for (all) historians

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 …

Digital history and the politics of digitization

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 …

Enriching the 1758 portuguese parish memories (alentejo) with named entities

R Vieira, F Olival, H Cameron, J Santos… - Journal of Open …, 2021 - dspace.uevora.pt
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 …

On pyramids, prisms, and scalable reading

A Fickers, F Clavert - Journal of Digital history, 2021 - degruyter.com
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 …

Exploring the possibilities of Thomson's fourth paradigm transformation—The case for a multimodal approach to digital oral history?

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 …