Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (short: GLAMs) around the globe are beginning
to explore the potential of crowdsourcing, ie outsourcing specific activities to a community …

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is essential for digitizing historical documents in
different kinds of archives. In this study, we introduce a hybrid form archive written in French …

Crowdsourcing, or “obtaining information or services by soliciting input from a large number
of people,” is becoming known for the impressive productivity of projects that ask the public …

Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework
to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming …

This thesis examines the impact of the democratic promises of Internet communication
technologies, social, and participatory media on the practice of public archaeology. It is …

Crowd-sourcing, the process of leveraging public participation in or contribution to a project
or activity, is relatively new to academic research, but is becoming increasingly important as …

In the late nineteenth century, two excavators from the University of Oxford uncovered a vast
trove of naturally deteriorated papyri, numbering over 500,000 fragments, from the city of …

The emergence of social media has radically transformed the way we create and consume
information. These changes have in turn given rise to new models of librarianship centered …

The following topics are dealt with: learning (artificial intelligence); document image
processing; convolutional neural nets; text analysis; handwritten character recognition; …

The developing “information age” is continually unraveling new ways of discovering,
presenting and sharing information. Most new academic material is digitally formatted upon …