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View article: Developing Computer Vision and Machine Learning Strategies to Unlock Government-created Records
Developing Computer Vision and Machine Learning Strategies to Unlock Government-created Records Open
This work explores the development of AI and ML computer vision techniques to unlock digitized handwritten US Census records from the 1950s, which includes over 6.5 million images and was only recently made available to the public on April…
View article: A Focus on the Future of our Tiny Piece of the Past: Digital Archiving of a Long-term Multi-participant Regional Project
A Focus on the Future of our Tiny Piece of the Past: Digital Archiving of a Long-term Multi-participant Regional Project Open
A paper presented at the 50th annual Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference, Amsterdam, 3-6 April, 2023. This paper considers the practical realities that have been encountered while seeking to create a usable Digital Archiv…
View article: A Focus on the Future of our Tiny Piece of the Past: Digital Archiving of a Long-term Multi-participant Regional Project
A Focus on the Future of our Tiny Piece of the Past: Digital Archiving of a Long-term Multi-participant Regional Project Open
A paper presented at the 50th annual Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference, Amsterdam, 3-6 April, 2023. This paper considers the practical realities that have been encountered while seeking to create a usable Digital Archiv…
View article: A Focus on the Future of our Tiny Piece of the Past: Digital Archiving of a Long-term Multi-participant Regional Project
A Focus on the Future of our Tiny Piece of the Past: Digital Archiving of a Long-term Multi-participant Regional Project Open
A paper presented at the 50th annual Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference, Amsterdam, 3-6 April, 2023. This paper considers the practical realities that have been encountered while seeking to create a usable Digital Archiv…
View article: DRAS-TIC Linked Data: Evenly Distributing the Past
DRAS-TIC Linked Data: Evenly Distributing the Past Open
Memory institutions must be able to grow a fully-functional repository incrementally as collections grow, without expensive enterprise storage, massive data migrations, and the performance limits that stem from the vertical storage strateg…
View article: Position Statements --- Always Already Computational: Collections as Data
Position Statements --- Always Already Computational: Collections as Data Open
Participants at Always Already Computational: Collections as Data Forum 1 (March 1-3, 2017) were asked to respond to the following prompt: Leading up to the forum, [we] ask that you write a brief position statement derived from direct or r…
View article: Petabytes in Practice: Working with Collections as Data at Scale
Petabytes in Practice: Working with Collections as Data at Scale Open
The emerging transdiscipline of Computational Archival Science (CAS) links frameworks such as Brown Dog and repository software such as Digital Repository At Scale To Invite Computation (DRAS-TIC) to yield an understanding of working with …
View article: Establishing an international computational network for librarians and archivists
Establishing an international computational network for librarians and archivists Open
Research and experimentation are underway in libraries, archives, and research institutions on various digital strategies, including computational methods and tools, to manage "Collections as Data." This involves new ways for librarians an…
View article: Building Open-Source Digital Curation Services and Repositories at Scale
Building Open-Source Digital Curation Services and Repositories at Scale Open
The focus of this article is to share several in-progress research and development open-source approaches that seek to design, build, and test digital curation services and repositories that have the potential to scale (the IMLS-funded Fed…
View article: Brown Dog
Brown Dog Open
Brown Dog is a data transformation service for auto-curation of long-tail data. In this digital age, we have more data available for analysis than ever and this trend will only increase. According to most estimates, 70--80% of this data is…
View article: Enhancing Access to Holocaust Records: Developing a Prototype International Research Portal
Enhancing Access to Holocaust Records: Developing a Prototype International Research Portal Open
Presentation given at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Fall 2017, on the International Research Portal project, to enable better access to records of art looting and restitution from Europe in WWII. The presentation in…
View article: An Architecture for Automatic Deployment of Brown Dog Services at Scale into Diverse Computing Infrastructures
An Architecture for Automatic Deployment of Brown Dog Services at Scale into Diverse Computing Infrastructures Open
Brown Dog is an extensible data cyberinfrastructure, that provides a set of extensible and distributed data conversion and metadata extraction services to enable access and search within unstructured, un-curated and inaccessible research d…
View article: Practical Digital Curation Skills for Archivists in the 21st Century
Practical Digital Curation Skills for Archivists in the 21st Century Open
The University of Maryland's Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) in the College of Information Studies promotes research and education in digital curation and fosters interdisciplinary partnerships using Big Records and archival anal…