From Digitized Sources to Digital Data, Behind the Scenes of (Critically) Enriching a Digital Heritage Collection

Viola, Lorella; Fiscarelli, Antonio Maria

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	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Engineering, computing & technology : Multidisciplinary, general & others
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/49578

Title :	From Digitized Sources to Digital Data, Behind the Scenes of (Critically) Enriching a Digital Heritage Collection
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Viola, Lorella [University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > DHARPA >]
	Fiscarelli, Antonio Maria []
Publication date :	2020
Edition :	2810
Main document title :	Proceedings of the International Conference Collect and Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age
Author, co-author :	Weber, Andreas
	Heerlien, Maarten
	Gassó Miracle, Eulàlia
	Wolstencroft, Katherine
Publisher :	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Pages :	51-64
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Event name :	International Conference Collect and Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age
Event date :	23-24 November 2020
Keywords :	[en] Digital Humanities ; Digital Heritage ; Enrichment ; Artificial Intelligence
Abstract :	[en] Digitally available repositories are becoming not only more and more widespread but also larger and larger. Although there are both digitally-born collections and digitised material, the digital heritage scholar is typically confronted with the latter. This immediately presents new challenges, one of the most urgent being how to find the meaningful elements that are hidden underneath such unprecedented mass of digital data. One way to respond to this challenge is to contextually enrich the digital material, for example through deep learning. Using the enrichment of the digital heritage collection ChroniclItaly 3.0 [10] as a concrete example, this article discusses the complexities of this process. Specifically, combining statistical and critical evaluation, it describes the gains and losses resulting from the decisions made by the researcher at each step and it shows how in the passage from digitised sources to enriched material, most is gained (e.g., preservation, wider and enhanced access, more material) but some is also lost (e.g., original layout and composition, loss of information due to pre-processing steps). The article concludes that it is only through a critical approach that the digital heritage scholar can successfully meet the interpretive challenges presented by the digital and the digital heritage sector fulfil the second most important purpose of digitisation, that is to enhance access.
Research centres :	Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Digital History & Historiography (DHI)
Funders :	Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Name of the research project :	DHARPA
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals ; Students
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/49578
Other URL :	http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2810/paper5.pdf
Mentions required by the publisher for OA :	Copyright © 2021 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
FnR project :	FnR ; FNR13307816 > Sean Takats > DHARPA > Digital History Advanced Research Projects Accelerator > 01/10/2019 > 30/09/2024 > 2019

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