Journal of Documentation: Volume 80 Issue 5

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Table of contents - Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Materials

Guest Editors: Glen Layne-Worthey, J. Stephen Downie

Computer vision and machine learning approaches for metadata enrichment to improve searchability of historical newspaper collections

Dilawar Ali, Kenzo Milleville, Steven Verstockt, Nico Van de Weghe, Sally Chambers, Julie M. Birkholz

Historical newspaper collections provide a wealth of information about the past. Although the digitization of these collections significantly improves their accessibility, a large…

Automated Dewey Decimal Classification of Swedish library metadata using Annif software

Koraljka Golub, Osma Suominen, Ahmed Taiye Mohammed, Harriet Aagaard, Olof Osterman

In order to estimate the value of semi-automated subject indexing in operative library catalogues, the study aimed to investigate five different automated implementations of an…

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Unsilencing colonial archives via automated entity recognition

Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens, Giovanni Colavizza

This paper aims to expand the scope and mitigate the biases of extant archival indexes.

User perspectives through cross-connections. The role of archives as part of the German digital research data infrastructure

Kai Naumann, Andreas Neuburger

Starting from the status quo, the paper outlines perspectives and challenges for the connection and interlinking of digitised and digital archival data. The following topics are…

Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model

Yuchen Yang

Recent archiving and curatorial practices took advantage of the advancement in digital technologies, creating immersive and interactive experiences to emphasize the plurality of…

Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage

Ewan D. Hannaford, Viktor Schlegel, Rhiannon Lewis, Stefan Ramsden, Jenny Bunn, John Moore, Marc Alexander, Hannah Barker, Riza Batista-Navarro, Lorna Hughes, Goran Nenadic

Community-generated digital content (CGDC) is one of the UK’s prime cultural assets. However, CGDC is currently “critically endangered” (Digital Preservation Coalition, 2021) due…

Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues

Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou, Sarah Kenderdine

Despite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have…

Validating predictions of burial mounds with field data: the promise and reality of machine learning

Adela Sobotkova, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, Orla Mallon, Shawn Adrian Ross

This paper provides practical advice for archaeologists and heritage specialists wishing to use ML approaches to identify archaeological features in high-resolution satellite…

Cover of Journal of Documentation

ISSN:

0022-0418

e-ISSN:

1758-7379

ISSN-L:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden