Desde mediados del 2005, archivistas- activistas del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala han estado digitalizando documentos policiales ocultos por más de un siglo para protegerlos, organizarlos y proporcionar acceso a los mismos — 23 millones de páginas hasta la fecha. Encontramos que la digitalización amplificó la reuti…[Read more]

Since mid-2005, archivist–activists at the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala have been digitizing a century’s worth of previously suppressed police
records so as to protect, mobilize and provide access to them – 23 million pages to date. We find that digitization amplified the staff’s repurposing of the archive to serve v…[Read more]

The polyphonic music of William Byrd (c. 1543–1623) poses significant challenges to analysts of early music. The category of ‘imitative’ polyphony, which suggests a mode of analysis that seeks to identify successive identical (or at least, very similar) entries of a clearly-defined subject, is ill-fitting. Byrd’s polyphony is varied and discurs…[Read more]

Notes and handouts from an informal presentation at the John Carter Brown Library.

Early modern printed books pose particular challenges for automatic transcription: uneven inking, irregular orthographies, radically multilingual texts. As a result, modern efforts to transcribe these documents tend to produce the textual gibberish commonly known as “dirty OCR” (Optical Character Recognition). This noisy output is most frequently…[Read more]

On the scholarly editing of historical documents as digital objects.