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 …

Integrated interdisciplinary workflows for research on historical newspapers: Perspectives from humanities scholars, computer scientists, and librarians

S Oberbichler, E Boroş, A Doucet… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article considers the interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges of working with
digital cultural heritage, such as digitized historical newspapers, and proposes an integrated …

Digital history: challenges and opportunities for the profession

S Lässig - Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2021 - vr-elibrary.de
This introductory essay presents a broad concept of digital history. Along with the themes
covered in the individual articles, it surveys the major issues arising from the digitalization of …

Interacting with digitised historical newspapers: understanding the use of digital surrogates as primary sources

E Late, S Kumpulainen - Journal of Documentation, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The paper examines academic historians' information interactions with material
from digital historical-newspaper collections as the research process unfolds …

Of global reach yet of situated contexts: an examination of the implicit and explicit selection criteria that shape digital archives of historical newspapers

T Hauswedell, J Nyhan, MH Beals, M Terras, E Bell - Archival Science, 2020 - Springer
A large literature addresses the processes, circumstances and motivations that have given
rise to archives. These questions are increasingly being asked of digital archives, too. Here …

Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies

J Hodder, D Beckingham - Progress in Human Geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article considers how digitisation is reshaping archival research in geography.
Digitisation is more than a technical convenience, something that simply speeds up existing …

The atlas of digitised newspapers and metadata: Reports from Oceanic Exchanges

MH Beals, E Bell, R Cordell, P Fyfe, I Galina Russell… - 2020 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Between 2017 and 2019, Oceanic Exchanges, funded through the Transatlantic Partnership
for Social Sciences and Humanities 2016 Digging into Data Challenge …

One-third of a century on: the state of the art, pitfalls, and the way ahead relating to digital humanities approaches to translation and interpreting studies

C Gu - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The year 1993 represents a momentous milestone in the not-so-long history of translation
and interpreting studies (TIS). The foundational paper published by Mona Baker entitled …

Computer vision and machine learning approaches for metadata enrichment to improve searchability of historical newspaper collections

D Ali, K Milleville, S Verstockt… - Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Historical newspaper collections provide a wealth of information about the past.
Although the digitization of these collections significantly improves their accessibility, a large …

Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union

E Stainforth - Memory Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union. The
article first gives some background to key debates in media memory studies, before going …