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Knowing what you don’t know – on gaps, quality issues, and other challenges in DH use cases

On Monday 27 May 2024, Trifecta PI Marieke van Erp gave the keynote at the First International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH) co-located with ESWC 2024 in Hersonissos, Greece.

Abstract:
Working with historical data is not for the faint of heart: data can be incomplete, warped through digitisation artefacts, or difficult to understand as language and society have changed. However, it also provides a window on the past that can help us understand today’s society better. In this talk, I will give examples of DH use cases that take on gaps in data, quality issues and other challenges head-first to make computational methods better suited to them.

Slides: SemDH24-keynote