Pitch van seriearchieven tijdens de studiedag Googelen door archieven op 13 oktober 2016 bij het Nationaal Archief. Door L. Schomaker en G. Mühlberger zijn als reactie op de pitch de mogelijkheden van automatische tekstherkenning en -analyse benoemd.

1. 1
Revealing the
unseen
Ceciel Huitema (Nationaal Archief) &
Nico Vriend (Noord-Hollands Archief)
Symposium ‘Googelen door archieven’
13 oktober 2016

2. Revealing the unseen
• 140 meters of documents
• Covering only ten years
Example: Ministry of Colonies, 1910-1919

3. Accessible?
• Descriptions of specific documents are ‘invisible’
Presented online as:

4. However, descriptions are available…
• Created at the time (1910-1919)
• 4 meters of ‘indexes’ to access 140 meters of documents

5. Can HTR help us to reveal the unseen?
• Advantages:
• Uniformity
• Only a few different handwritings
• Biggest challenge:
• How can we reconnect information from different columns?

6. Can HTR help us to reveal the unseen?
• Advantages:
• Most governmental archives are structured in more or less
the same way
Municipality of Haarlem, 1886-1898

7. Goals
2 in 1:
1) Testing HTR: text recognition and functionalities
2) Revealing the unseen iceberg
• Creating metadata in bulk
Illustratie Shutterstock © grop
Pilots
1) Ministry of Colonies, 1910-1919
(Nationaal Archief)
2) Municipality of Haarlem, 1886-1898
(Noord-Hollands Archief)