Death and Burial Data: Ireland 1864–1922 – an Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Ciara Breathnach, Rachel Murphy

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Abstract

Historical Big Data has posed a problem for successive national administrations, and while digitization has played an important role in ensuring the survival of invaluable social history artefacts, it has created a multitude of new problems. Digitization became the panacea for archival access over the past 50 years and it served the immediate purpose of taking fragile cultural artefacts out of the ‘handling environment’. With rapid advances in technology over the past 20 years concerns have now shifted to the conservation and preservation of these digital archives. The life cycle of digitization has moved from the simple concept of preservation standard digital duplicate to more complex workflow processes enabling migration and access. In this paper we discuss some of the legacy issues that digitization has created and how meaningful collaborations between historical and computer scientists can yield exciting solutions to complicated research problems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages365-376
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15240 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Historical Big Data
  • Pedagogy
  • XMDD

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