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Data and Process Quality Evaluation in a Textual Big Data Archiving System
The article presents a textual Big Data analytics solution developed in a real setting as a part of a high-capacity document digitization and storage system. A software based on machine learning techniques performs automated extraction and processing of ...
Analyzing Code-mixing in Linguistic Corpora Using Kratylos
Code-switching, code-mixing, and, more generally, multilingualism pose technological challenges for language documentation, the sub-discipline of linguistics that deals with the annotation and basic analysis of field recordings and other primary data. We ...
Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives
The digital transformation is turning archives, both old and new, into data. As a consequence, automation in the form of artificial intelligence techniques is increasingly applied both to scale traditional recordkeeping activities, and to experiment with ...
Providing More Efficient Access to Government Records: A Use Case Involving Application of Machine Learning to Improve FOIA Review for the Deliberative Process Privilege
At present, the review process for material that is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the United States of America, and under many similar government transparency regimes worldwide, is entirely manual. Public access to ...
A Computational Look at Oral History Archives
Computational technologies have revolutionized the archival sciences field, prompting new approaches to process the extensive data in these collections. Automatic speech recognition and natural language processing create unique possibilities for analysis ...
Alexa, Is This a Historical Record?
Digital transformation in government has brought an increase in the scale, variety, and complexity of records and greater levels of disorganised data. Current practices for selecting records for transfer to The National Archives (TNA) were developed to ...
WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A National War Memorial on the Semantic Web for Digital Humanities Research and Applications
This article presents the semantic portal and Linked Open Data service WarVictimSampo 1914–1922 about the war victims, battles, and prisoner camps in the Finnish Civil and other wars in 1914–1922. The system is based on a database of the National Archives ...
Building Cultural Heritage Reference Collections from Social Media through Pooling Strategies: The Case of 2020’s Tensions Over Race and Heritage
Social networks constitute a valuable source for documenting heritage constitution processes or obtaining a real-time snapshot of a cultural heritage research topic. Many heritage researchers use social networks as a social thermometer to study these ...
Connected Histories of the BBC: Opening up the BBC Oral History Archive to the Digital Domain
This article describes the computational and data-related challenges of the “Connected Histories of the BBC” project, an interdisciplinary project aiming to bring into the public realm some of the hidden treasures of the BBC's own Oral History Archive ...
Integrating Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives: Requirements, State of the Art, and Challenges
- Enrico Daga,
- Luigi Asprino,
- Rossana Damiano,
- Marilena Daquino,
- Belen Diaz Agudo,
- Aldo Gangemi,
- Tsvi Kuflik,
- Antonio Lieto,
- Mark Maguire,
- Anna Maria Marras,
- Delfina Martinez Pandiani,
- Paul Mulholland,
- Silvio Peroni,
- Sofia Pescarin,
- Alan Wecker
Digital archives of memory institutions are typically concerned with the cataloguing of artefacts of artistic, historical, and cultural value. Recently, new forms of citizen participation in cultural heritage have emerged, producing a wealth of material ...
Networking the Archive: The Stories and Structures of Thos. Agnew's Stock Books
This paper reflects on the recent collaboration between the National Gallery Research Centre and the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London (NG/DDH). Using the stock books located in the archives of the art dealers Thos. Agnew & Sons as ...
Deep Segmentation of Corrupted Glyphs
Historical documents and archaeological artifacts are hard to process due to natural degradation, fading, spills, tears, overlaid data,, and so on. In this work, we focus on the task of recovering characters and symbols from images of corrupted ...
Resolution and Quality Issues in 3D Analysis of Inscribed Signs: An Example from Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions
A recurrent demand in many archaeological digital documentation systems is the need for an accurate as possible registration of data. Somehow, contrary to this request, are efforts led by various computer science groups dealing with 3D documentation and ...
“Real Change Comes from Within!”: Towards a Symbiosis of Human and Digital Guides in the Museum
- Angeliki Antoniou,
- Maria Vayanou,
- Akrivi Katifori,
- Angeliki Chrysanthi,
- Filippia Cheilitsi,
- Yannis Ioannidis
Extensive research on mobile guides for museums has explored the potential of technology to offer some of the services that have been traditionally provided by human guides, including guiding visitors in the museum space, providing information about the ...
Representation of Socio-historical Context to Support the Authoring and Presentation of Multimodal Narratives: The Mingei Online Platform
- Nikolaos N. P. Partarakis,
- Paraskevi P. D. Doulgeraki,
- Effie E. K. Karuzaki,
- Ilia I. A. Adami,
- Stavroula S. N. Ntoa,
- Daniele D. M. Metilli,
- Valentina V. B. Bartalesi,
- Carlo C. M. Meghini,
- Yannis Y. M. Marketakis,
- Danai D. M. Kaplanidi,
- Maria M. T. Theodoridou,
- Xenophon X. Z. Zabulis
In this article, the Mingei Online Platform is presented as an authoring platform for the representation of social and historic context encompassing a focal topic of interest. The proposed representation is employed in the contextualised presentation of a ...
3D GIS Semi-automatized Modelling Procedure for the Conservation of the PHiM: Heritage Municipal Buildings of Seville (Spain). A New Dimension for Urban Cultural Data Management
- Francisco M. Hidalgo-Sánchez,
- Emilio J. Mascort-Albea,
- Martin Kada,
- Rocío Romero-Hernández,
- Jacinto Canivell,
- Francisco López-Larrínaga
This research explores the possibilities resulting from the use of three-dimensional (3D) models designed in GIS environments for their application to the management and conservation of historical architectonic heritage. This 3D modelling work is one of ...
Comparative Analysis Between the Main 3D Scanning Techniques: Photogrammetry, Terrestrial Laser Scanner, and Structured Light Scanner in Religious Imagery: The Case of The Holy Christ of the Blood
In recent years, three-dimensional (3D) scanning has become the main tool for recording, documenting, and preserving cultural heritage in the long term. It has become the “document” most in demand today by historians, curators, and art restorers to carry ...
Towards Tangible Cultural Heritage Experiences—Enriching VR-based Object Inspection with Haptic Feedback
VR/AR technology is a key enabler for new ways of immersively experiencing cultural heritage artifacts based on their virtual counterparts obtained from a digitization process. In this article, we focus on enriching VR-based object inspection by ...