We will demonstrate products of the BitCurator NLP project, which is developing software for libraries, archives and museums to extract and expose features (e.g. people, places, organizations, events, relationships, topics) in text from born-digital materials. The services and methods can be used by LAM professionals for appraisal and description, as well as facilitating a wider range of access and use scenarios. The workshop will conclude with a discussion about issues related specifically to NLP for personal digital archives.
Attendance to this workshop is limited. Please sign up using the registration above.
To prepare:
If you have your own laptop, please plan to bring it and to install the software below so that you can follow along with the workshop. If you do not have a laptop we can have some available but you must email macondron@uh.edu to let us know, so we can mae sure we have enough available.
The needed software is VirtualBox, available for free download at
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2 - Windows machines will download build 5.2.8.
Instructions for installation can be found on pages 6-9 of this document:
https://wiki.bitcurator.net/downloads/BitCurator-Quickstart.pdf note that the workshop will be using a different virtual machine (not BitCurator environment) so you do not need to follow the steps after that.
