Text to Multimodal: Innovative Approaches in Digital Humanities
Chair: Ridge, Mia

From Videos to Vectors: Holistic Encoding and New Interface for Exploration and Discovery

Yang, Yuchen

EPFL, Switzerland

HTML XML

This proposal attempts to advance the current practice in video annotations and explorative interfaces, which serve as the gateway to open up audiovisual archives to the public.


A Digital Engagement Framework for Handwritten Text Recognition. How can libraries harness automated transcription to develop audiences?

Nockels, Joseph Hiliary (1); Terras, Melissa (2); Gooding, Paul (3)

1: University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow; National Library of Scotland; 2: University of Edinburgh, Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art; 3: University of Glasgow, Information Studies

We present a Digital Engagement Framework for expanding Handwritten Text Recognition, a form of AI-enabled automated transcription, at the National Library of Scotland. Through interviews with NLS staff, we consider future activities to fully harness the affordances of automated transcription and show the usefulness of DEFs in structuring these activities.