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- Title
Special Issue: Epigraphy and Paleography: Bringing Records from the Distant Past to the Present.
- Authors
Griffin, Stephen M.
- Abstract
This special issue brings together three areas of research and scholarly work areas that would have demonstrated few obvious relationships three decades ago. Digital libraries research, practices and infrastructures have transformed the study of ancient inscriptions by providing organizing principles for collections building, defining interoperability requirements and developing innovative user tools and services. Yet linking collections and their contents to support advanced scholarly work in epigraphy and paleography tests the limits of current digital libraries applications. This is due, in part, to the magnitude and heterogeneity of works created over a time period of more than five millennia. The remarkable diversity ranges from the number of types of artifacts to the methods used in their production to the singularity of individual marks contained within them. Conversion of analog collections to digital repositories is well underway—but most often not in a way that meets the basic requirements needed to support scholarly workflows. This is beginning to change. In addition to efforts to develop complex data objects, linking strategies and repositories aggregation, there is a new use of imaging technologies and computational approaches to recognize, enhance, recover and restore writings. Most recently, leading-edge artificial intelligence methods are being applied for the automated transcription of handwritten text into machine readable forms. The articles in this special issue will give examples of each.
- Subjects
PALEOGRAPHY; INSCRIPTIONS; DIGITAL libraries; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; LIBRARY research; HANDWRITING recognition (Computer science)
- Publication
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 2, p77
- ISSN
1432-5012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00799-023-00371-4