The Rise of Digitization

Terras, Melissa

doi:10.1007/978-94-6091-299-3_1

Cited by 26 publications

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“…In recent decades, digitization of cultural heritage sites has become a keenly studied topic (Evens & Hauttekeete, 2011) with pilot projects in existence since the late 1980s and early 1990s (Terras, 2011). Assessing and evaluating the extent to which a digital library satisfies the needs of its users are the most frequently used evaluation paradigms for digital libraries (Kelly, 2014;Todd-Diaz & O'Hare, 2014) as well as for digital museums and cultural heritage sites (e.g., Barbieri, Bruno & Muzzupappa, 2017;Artese, Ciocca & Gagliardi, 2017).…”

Section: Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries and User Experience Evalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Usability Evaluation of E-Dunhuang Cultural Heritage Digital Library

Hu¹

2018

Data and Information Management

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Digital libraries have been strategic in preserving and making non-movable cultural heritage information accessible to everyone with network connections. In light of their cultural and historical importance in the ancient “Silk Road,” murals and stone caves in Dunhuang, a remote city in northwest China,have been digitized, and the first batch of digitized visual materials has been made available to the general public through the e-Dunhuang digital library since May 2016. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate e-Dunhuang from users’ perspectives, through usability testing with nine user tasks in different complexity levels and in-depth interviews with regard to a set of criteria in user experience. The results of quantitative analysis confirmed the overall effectiveness of e-Dunhuang in supporting user task completion and demonstrated significant improvements in several criteria over an earlier panorama collection of Dunhuang caves. The results of qualitative analysis revealed in-depth reasons for why participants felt satisfied with some criteria but had concerns with other criteria. Based on the findings, suggestions are proposed for further improvement in e-Dunhuang. As e-Dunhuang is a representative repository of digitized visual materials of cultural heritage, this study offers insights and empirical findings on user-centered evaluation of cultural heritage digital libraries.

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Section: Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries and User Experience Evalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Usability Evaluation of E-Dunhuang Cultural Heritage Digital Library

Hu¹

2018

Data and Information Management

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“…Not that it is necessary for all classicists to be digital classicists; the techniques and technologies described here intersect with more traditional close-reading methods, and both approaches are needed within the community. It is worth noting too that undertaking research that crosses disciplinary boundaries between computing and classical studies brings its own logistical, practical, and personal issues, such as negotiating different academic cultures; finding appropriate publication venues; developing robust promotion and tenure cases; developing adequate skills; and recruiting, training, and maintaining staff who can straddle both camps (Barker 2013;Terras 2010b). Nevertheless, those working in this area are increasing both the usability and visibility of classics-related information in the networked environment and changing the scope and reach of questions we can ask of the sources.…”

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confidence: 99%

Greek Literature, the Digital Humanities, and the Shifting Technologies of Reading

Barker¹,

Terras

2016

Oxford Handbook Topics in Classical Studies

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Contrary perhaps to expectation, Classical studies is at the vanguard of the latest technological developments for using digital tools and computational techniques in research. This article outlines its pioneering adoption of digital tools and methods, and investigates how the digital medium is helping to transform the study of Greek and Latin literature. It discusses the processes and consequences of digitization, explaining how technologies like multispectral imaging are increasing the textual corpus, while examining how annotation, engagement, and reuse are changing the way we think about “the text”. It also considers how the digital turn is reinvigorating textual analysis, by exploring the broader ecosystem, within which the digital text can now be studied, and which provides enriched contexts for understanding that are constantly shifting and expanding. Classical literature in the digital age has the potential to both challenge dominant modes of thinking about antiquity and disrupt traditional ways of doing research.

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“…First, at the technical level, the adoption of deep learning architectures and the usage of embedded language representations greatly reshapes the field and opens up new research directions [2,27,26]. Second, with respect to application domain and language spectrum, NE processing has been called upon to contribute to the field of Digital Humanities (DH), where massive digitization of historical documents is producing huge amounts of texts [50]. Thanks to largescale digitization projects driven by cultural institutions, millions of images are being acquired and, when it comes to text, their content is transcribed, either manually via dedicated interfaces, or automatically via Optical Character Recognition (OCR).…”

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Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Ehrmann

Romanello

Flückiger

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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This paper presents an overview of the first edition of HIPE (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities), a pioneering shared task dedicated to the evaluation of named entity processing on historical newspapers in French, German and English. Since its introduction some twenty years ago, named entity (NE) processing has become an essential component of virtually any text mining application and has undergone major changes. Recently, two main trends characterise its developments: the adoption of deep learning architectures and the consideration of textual material originating from historical and cultural heritage collections. While the former opens up new opportunities, the latter introduces new challenges with heterogeneous, historical and noisy inputs. In this context, the objective of HIPE, run as part of the CLEF 2020 conference, is threefold: strengthening the robustness of existing approaches on non-standard inputs, enabling performance comparison of NE processing on historical texts, and, in the long run, fostering efficient semantic indexing of historical documents. Tasks, corpora, and results of 13 participating teams are presented.

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The Rise of Digitization

Cited by 26 publications

References 7 publications

Usability Evaluation of E-Dunhuang Cultural Heritage Digital Library

Usability Evaluation of E-Dunhuang Cultural Heritage Digital Library

Greek Literature, the Digital Humanities, and the Shifting Technologies of Reading

Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

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