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image processing techniques are unblocking what has been a hugely expensive and time-intensive process of turning historical documents into machine readable transcriptions, in a manner that enables a scaling up of the process.The next problem that then needs to be tackled is how to support …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
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Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), the KG of Irish History is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries.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
Over the last number of years Digital Humanities projects such as the Virtual Record Treasury (virtualtreasury.ie) have attempted to provide user interfaces for public users to engage with the historical resources that are being digitised at speed and at scale. The focus has primarily been placed on enabling this engagement through website organisation (themes, collections … Read more