Subject: Linked Data

[ALLOCATED] 24/25 Project: Using advanced NLP techniques to support annotation of transcribed historical documents

Prof. Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

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image processing techniques are unblocking what has been a hugely expensive and time-intensive process of turning historical documents into machine readable transcriptions, in a manner that enables a scaling up of the process.The next problem that then needs to be tackled is how to support …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

[ALLOCATED] 24/25 Project: Timeline visualisation of people data

Prof. Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

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 the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (https://timelines.virtualtreasury.ie/timelines/) is really helpful. This user interface was developed a number of years ago, and the intention … Read more

[ALLOCATED] 24/25: Authoritative Interlinking of Knowledge Graphs

Prof. Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

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launched Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), a KG is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries. Typically these KGs are implemented using W3C … Read more