Summary
In the HAICu-project, AI researchers, digital humanities researchers, heritage professionals, journalists and engaged citizens work together to realize scientific breakthroughs in accessibility and contextualization of large multimodal digital heritage collections. The challenges of these collections offer a unique opportunity to co-create and research with the main stakeholders in the field new forms of AI-driven access to petabytes of multi-modal data stored in Dutch cultural heritage (CH) institutions (e.g. National Archive (The Hague), KB – National Library, Groningen Archives, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Naturalis). The project involves seven Dutch universities, three research institutes (e.g. KNAW, CWI), five universities of applied science (e.g. Fontys, HvA, NHL Stenden) and more than ten societal partners (e.g. VPRO, Surf, BMP), and three companies. Research at the University of Twente will focus on new forms of AI driven access to regional and colonial handwritten archives as they are stored at Collectie Overijssel in Zwolle, Groningen Archives, and the National Archives in The Hague. What interests us in Twente most is how citizen volunteers can be best brought in conversation with machine learning technologies to recognize handwritten text and interpret or interlink the knowledge these texts entail. Next to research, the University of Twente has a central role in leading the HAICu consortium.
Partners
The HAICu project is funded by NWO/NWA. Project website: https://haicu.science.
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Project duration: 1 January 2024 – 31 January 2030
Who's working on this project
Contact: dr. Andreas Weber
