[ALLOCATED] 24/25 Project: Using advanced NLP techniques to support annotation of transcribed historical documents

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image processing techniques are unblocking what has been a hugely expensive and time-intensive process of turning historical documents into machine readable transcriptions, in a manner that enables a scaling up of the process.The next problem that then needs to be tackled is how to support …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

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

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launched Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), a KG is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries.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