Understanding Archives: Towards New Research Interfaces Relying on the Semantic Annotation of Documents

arXiv:2403.19201v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The digitisation campaigns carried out by libraries and archives in recent years have facilitated access to documents in their collections. However, exploring and exploiting these documents remain difficult tasks due to the sheer quantity of documents available for consultation. In this article, we show how the semantic annotation of the textual content of study corpora of archival documents allow to facilitate their exploitation and valorisation. First, we present a methodological framework for the construction of …

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