School of Computer Science and Statistics
With tools such as Transkribus (https://www.transkribus.org/) and eScriptorium (https://www.sofer.info/), AI-based image processing techniques are unblocking what has been a hugely expensive and time-intensive process of turning historical documents into machine readable transcriptions, in a manner that enables a scaling up of the process.The next problem that then needs to be tackled is how to support … Read more
Using timelines to visualise critical data is particularly useful for domain experts to examine and analyse a wide range of data. For example for Historians a timeline visualisation such as seen in an early attempt of this (https://timelines.virtualtreasury.ie/timelines/) for the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland team is really helpful. This user interface was developed a … Read more
This project focuses on how to deploy Natural Language Processing and Generative AI approaches to support historians to annotate transcriptions with links to entities in an existing knowledge graph. Typically this means employing techniques to undertake Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking tasks and providing candidate annotations to the historians through a simple user interface … Read more
Many knowledge graphs are not constructed from scratch, but rather are based on the ongoing uplift of data from existing data sources hosted in a variety of diverse data representations (relational data, JSON, CSV, XML etc.). The community has developed specifications that allow engineers who construct and maintain knowledge graphs to flexibly specify what data … Read more
Increasingly Knowledge Graphs are underpinning Digital Humanities projects to support the representation and interlinking of data. For example in the recently launched Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), the KG of Irish History is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries. Typically these KGs are … Read more
Launched in June 2025, the Knowledge Graph of Irish History (kg.virtualtreasury.ie) uses W3C based knowledge graph technologies to represent places and selected Irish people across history and links them to historical records contained in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (virtualtreasury.ie). In the next phase the knowledge graph is being expanded to other entities (such … Read more