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Publication date: 31 January 2023

Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens and Giovanni Colavizza

This paper aims to expand the scope and mitigate the biases of extant archival indexes.

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to expand the scope and mitigate the biases of extant archival indexes.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors use automatic entity recognition on the archives of the Dutch East India Company to extract mentions of underrepresented people.

Findings

The authors release an annotated corpus and baselines for a shared task and show that the proposed goal is feasible.

Originality/value

Colonial archives are increasingly a focus of attention for historians and the public, broadening access to them is a pressing need for archives.

Details

Journal of Documentation, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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