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{"title":"Modest doubt: enabling discovery across maritime heritage records.","authors":"Jack Pink, Shrikriti Singh, Adriane Chapman, Fraser Sturt","doi":"10.1007/s42803-025-00117-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42803-025-00117-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The United Kingdom's Maritime Heritage records hold vital information on heritage assets and archaeological contexts key to addressing current research priorities. These records stand alone, rarely connecting, demanding an arduous and time-consuming process of investigation and cross-referencing for synthesis to occur. Challenges intensify due to the qualities of this data; they stem partly from legacy information not initially intended for heritage recording purposes. Complications also arise from the varied methods of recording, storing, and disseminating this information deployed over time. However, archaeologists now possess Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools with the potential to organize and search such fragmented databases. This paper explores a method to enhance and enrich these datasets by employing Few Shot learning techniques to perform Multiclass Text Classification. The Welsh National Monuments Record (NMR), a glimpse into the U.K.'s maritime heritage, has been utilized to test these approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"8 1-2","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13368895/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148458040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital hybridity and relics in cultural heritage: using corpus linguistics to inform design in emerging technologies from AI to VR.","authors":"Emma McClaughlin, Glenn McGarry, Alan Chamberlain, Geert De Wilde, Oliver Butler","doi":"10.1007/s42803-026-00120-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42803-026-00120-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hybrid technologies enable the blending of physical and digital elements, creating new ways to experience and interact with the world. Such technologies can transform engagement with relics-both secular and sacred-but they present challenges for capturing faith, belief, and representation responsibly. Given the complexities of digital representation and the ethical challenges inherent in digitising culturally significant objects, a transdisciplinary understanding of these issues is needed. To inform this discussion from a linguistic perspective, we examined the representation of relics in historical and contemporary texts. Using a corpus linguistic approach to extract modifiers of the word 'relic' in corpora of Early Modern English books and contemporary web-sourced texts from 2021, we examined the multifaceted ways in which relics have been perceived and evaluated over time. Early texts consider relics as both objects of moral and spiritual significance, and tools of religious and political control, while they are more often framed as heritage symbols, reflecting past events, places, and traditions in contemporary texts. We discuss how hybrid, sometimes AI-based technologies can enhance accessibility and engagement, whilst also challenging traditional sensitivities around authenticity and sensory experience, which are integral to the meaning and significance of relics.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42803-026-00120-4.</p>","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"8 1-2","pages":"51-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13368959/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148458088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping historical diaries into knowledge graphs: a multi-granular approach.","authors":"Sepideh Alassi","doi":"10.1007/s42803-026-00119-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-026-00119-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents a methodological framework for representing historical diaries as multi-layered, interactive, region-based RDF knowledge graphs, enabling precise and granular modeling of manuscripts, pages, textual regions, and annotations. It identifies five significant challenges in scholarly digital editions and demonstrates how these can be addressed through a framework that supports segment-level text representation, targeted annotation, and interoperability across editions, languages, and manuscript witnesses. This framework incorporates a segment-level citation system with resolvable, timestamped identifiers, ensuring reproducibility, stable referencing, and reliable scholarly citation over time. To describe the suggested methodologies and functionalities, this paper provides examples from digital editions of Jacob Bernoulli's <i>Meditationes</i> and <i>Reisbüchlein</i>, highlighting the potential of RDF ontologies to capture complex editorial layers, including transcriptions, translations, and scholarly commentary.</p>","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"8 1-2","pages":"25-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13649926/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149170955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing advanced handwritten text recognition engines for digitizing historical documents.","authors":"C A Romein, A Rabus, G Leifert, P B Ströbel","doi":"10.1007/s42803-025-00100-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-025-00100-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study provides critical insights and evaluates the performance of state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) engines-PyLaia, HTR + , IDA, TrOCR-f, and Transkribus' proprietary Transformer-based \"supermodel\" Titan-to digitize historical documents. Using a diverse range of datasets that include different scripts, this research assesses each engine's accuracy and efficiency in handling multilingual content, complex styles, abbreviations, and historical orthography. Results indicate that, while all engines can be trained or fine-tuned to improve performance, Titan and TrOCR-f exhibit superior out-of-the-box capabilities for Latin-script documents. PyLaia, IDA, and HTR + excel in specific non-Latin scripts when specifically trained or fine-tuned. This study underscores the importance of training, fine-tuning, and integrating language models, providing critical insights for future advancements in HTR technology and its application in the digital humanities.</p>","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"7 1","pages":"115-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12202554/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discovery, reusability, sustainability: Exploring principles for web-map application development with <i>Peripleo</i>.","authors":"Gethin Rees, Leif Isaksen, Stephen Gadd, Rainer Simon","doi":"10.1007/s42803-025-00112-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42803-025-00112-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"7 3","pages":"459-481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12929353/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147313269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Online cultural heritage as a social machine: a socio-technical approach to digital infrastructure and ecosystems.","authors":"Javier Pereda, Pip Willcox, Gustavo Candela, Alexander Sanchez, Patricia A Murrieta-Flores","doi":"10.1007/s42803-025-00097-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42803-025-00097-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The advent of digital technologies has profoundly transformed cultural and heritage sectors, providing new avenues for broader access and interactions with digital collections. This shift has enabled Online Cultural Heritage (OCH) to evolve into an extensive ecosystem. Given the complexity that emerges from these networks and stakeholders, it is crucial to develop a clearer understanding of the extensive terminology used in the sector and establish pathways to deconstruct this complexity. Therefore, this article's aim is threefold: 1) it examines how OCH ecosystems foster the ongoing reinterpretation and recontextualisation of cultural heritage collections through technologic innovations and the Web. In doing so, it highlights the relevance of policy development and the establishment of ethical frameworks that address both human and technical complexities of Cultural Heritage (CH) knowledge; 2) using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) as a framework and its terminology, the article maps the workflows and socio-technical actors of the OCH ecosystem; and 3) the article applies Callon's Process of Translation, a methodology for understanding how socio-technical networks evolve and use it to critically deconstruct digital infrastructures in OCH. This methodology enables the contextualisation and reinterpretation of cultural narratives across digital platforms, both online and offline, underscoring the dynamic interplay between technology, human agency, and cultural context. We explore how OCH ecosystems and other infrastructural ecosystems aid in preserving and facilitating engagement with open knowledge and research, and function as complex networks of cultural institutions interconnected through knowledge infrastructures. Whilst the paper places the primary approach within UK infrastructures, it provides alternative perspectives from the Global South, particularly Latin America, to contrast and further illustrate a reflection on the current and future challenges behind a sustainable OCH ecosystem, its implications for further networks, and its potential as a model beyond the CH sector. Furthermore, this framework can become paramount to identifying obstacles and opportunities for digital infrastructures, establishing a nuanced understanding of OCH as a core infrastructural element in the generation of knowledge from digital collections or digital infrastructures around the world. Finally, we provide a glossary of terms to establish a common ground between the wide range of parties involved in OCH. CCS CONCEPTS • Digital libraries and archives • Information Integration • Cultural characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"7 1","pages":"39-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12202677/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"RelChronVis: an interactive web application for visualizing the relative chronology of language changes","authors":"Florian Wandl, Thilo H. K. Thelitz","doi":"10.1007/s42803-024-00086-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-024-00086-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"44 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141807749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DOLD: a digital platform for conducting online language experiments and surveys","authors":"Yik-Po Lai, Hin Tat Cheung","doi":"10.1007/s42803-024-00085-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-024-00085-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141683123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction: Committing to reproducibility and explainability: using Git as a research journal","authors":"Samuel J. Huskey","doi":"10.1007/s42803-024-00084-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-024-00084-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139802443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction: Committing to reproducibility and explainability: using Git as a research journal","authors":"Samuel J. Huskey","doi":"10.1007/s42803-024-00084-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-024-00084-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91018,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital humanities","volume":"1 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139861914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}