web programming – Student Projects

[ALLOCATED] 25/26 PROJECT #7: Improvement of Image to Transcription process for Historical Documents

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image processing techniques are unblocking what has been a hugely expensive and time-intensive process of turning historical documents into machine readable transcriptions, in a manner that enables a scaling up of the process. However such processes are not error-free (for example due to handwriting mis-transcribing … Read more

[ALLOCATED] 25/26 PROJECT #3 Aligning, Mining and Visualising Historical Records

Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

The historical records relate to Coolattin, a major landed estate in Wicklow, Ireland belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam, in the mid 19th century. The National Library has the estate papers, which include bound volumes of beautiful estate maps by townland, each with a list of tenants and the size of their landholdings. The Fitzwilliam Estate also … Read more

[ALLOCATED] 25/26 Project #2 :Student proposed – App/Tool based on open data in support of Societal good

Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

Vast amounts of data is being published by governments as open data (e.g. https://data.gov.ie). Typically the decision to publish a dataset in an open manner is mandated but decision made in isolation as to how it could be integrated with other datasets. This research would focus on development of an App/Tool that would bring together … Read more