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When archives go digital…! Tools, Practices, Opportunities, and Challenges

dc.contributor.authorVan Gelder, Klaas
dc.contributor.authorRomein, Annemieke
dc.contributor.authorGillard, Xavier
dc.contributor.editorHerrebout, Els
dc.date2026-05-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-06T20:22:09Z
dc.date.available2026-05-06T20:22:09Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.identifier.citationVAN GELDER, Klaas; ROMEIN, Annemieke & GILLARD, Xavier (2026). When archives go digital…! Tools, Practices, Opportunities, and Challenges. In Els HERREBOUT (Ed.), International Archives Symposium in Namur (2025). Open Data and AI. New chances for Archives? Proceedings (Miscellanea Archivistica Studia, 225, pp. 41–69). State Archives of Belgium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20058393.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9789463916615
dc.identifier.otherPublication reference number: 6668
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/14701
dc.descriptionThe digital transformation of archives, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, represents a fundamental methodological shift for historical research and archival practice. This paper examines two complementary technological approaches through concrete projects at UTwente, the Belgian State Archives, VUB, and UCLouvain. First, it analyses Automatic Text Recognition platforms - particularly Transkribus - which convert vast holdings of historical manuscripts into machine-readable, searchable data. Second, it introduces AI-rchivist, a prototype tool developed within the ARKEY project, which uses generative AI to extract metadata, generate multilingual summaries, and identify named entities.en_US
dc.descriptionThis conference paper is published as part of <a href="https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/14703" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>International Archives Symposium in Namur (2025). Open Data and AI. New chances for Archives? Proceedings</strong></a>.
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherState Archives of Belgiumen_US
dc.relation.ispartofStudies
dc.relation.ispartofArchival Studies
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Archives Symposium in Namur (2025) : Open Data and AI. New chances for Archives? : Proceedings
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMiscellanea Archivistica Studiaen_US
dc.titleWhen archives go digital…! Tools, Practices, Opportunities, and Challengesen_US
dc.typeConference paperen_US
dc.subject.frascatiComputer and information sciencesen_US
dc.subject.frascatiHistory and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.frascatiArchival Science
dc.audienceScientificen_US
dc.source.titleInternational Archives Symposium in Namur (2025). Open Data and AI. New chances for Archives? Proceedingsen_US
dc.source.volume225en_US
dc.source.page41-69en_US
Orfeo.peerreviewedNot pertinenten_US
dc.identifier.publisherlinkhttps://www.arch.be
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20058875
dc.identifier.depositnumberD/2026/531/032
dc.accessrightsOpen access
dcterms.accessRightsOpen access
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dcterms.typePublished version


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