Building a Fichero: New Tools, Old Documents, and Machine Learning Workflows with an Endangered Afro-Colombian Archive

Building a Fichero: New Tools, Old Documents, and Machine Learning Workflows with an Endangered Afro-Colombian Archive

— Andrew Paul Janco, Kelly López Roldán, Daniel Tubb

artificial intelligence + social intelligence

Machine learning must support and expand on investments in people.

scale don't replace

Machine learning should augment and scale human archival and research work

situated knowledge

Build situated knowledge and empower people to avoid extractive practices

photograph and digitize the archive

cataloging and interpretation phase

members of the project team visited the Muntu Bantu Center in Qubidó

a complementary approach to cataloguing which uses a machine learning workflow

as data

https://github.com/explosion/weasel

prepare

prepare

transcribe

prepare

transcribe

process

prepare

transcribe

process

publish

Hand-Type Classifier

Text

Thank you!