Adopting Transkribus in the National Library of Scotland: Understanding how Handwritten Text Recognition Will Change Management and Use of Digitised M

最近，人工智能(AI)已成为使数字档案材料更容易获得的核心工具。然而，在这些研究中，使用者及其行为往往被忽视。与苏格兰国家图书馆(NLS)密切合作，该学员将推断如何最好地部署人工智能平台-文本识别软件Transkrubs，以造福用户社区。还将了解实施这类系统可能如何扰乱、延长和改变主要图书馆和档案馆的传统工作流程。HTR技术可以被视为档案数字化这一更广泛趋势的一部分--这一趋势也是新发现的对“数字人文”的关注背后的原因。档案馆目前正寻求使用这种数字软件，正在重新想象他们如何作为历史材料的保管人。如今，互联网接入已经变得如此无处不在，以至于人们开始讨论“后监管世界”，在这个世界里，档案仅仅是“访问枢纽”或“没有围墙的虚拟档案”。这一变化只会被认为是增加的，因此，对像传送带这样的系统的重视只会增加。这样的问题将被问到：图书馆如何有效地将自己嵌入数字化工作流程？HTR的使用可能会如何扰乱或增强现有的档案做法？为了更广泛地使用HTR，需要解决哪些制度、伦理和基础设施问题？将在实地与国家法学会、特别是其数字档案和手稿部门以及因斯布鲁克大学的Transkratis开发人员进行合作，以便能够关键地接触到相关的感兴趣领域。这样的机会将使我们能够在背景下分析该软件，并应用人种学方法来理解HTR如何与传统的古文字学实践相联系。在员额的第二年进行：该项目方法的一个核心组成部分将是对国家后勤服务中心的公众成员进行用户体验测试，扩大他们现有的外联活动，使用约翰·默里档案中的材料，评估使用Transkrubs的障碍和加强。还将提供其他领域的用户分析，包括与NLS年度活动相关的弹出式展览，以及通过苏格兰艺术与人文研究生院(SGSAH)进行的展示。通过Terras教授的监督，还将有机会在一年一度的Transkreds会议上就研究成果发表讲话。目前，对人工智能的许多研究都是无定形的，如果没有对用户的基层分析，就会预测未来。通过将用户重新插入到对这类软件的分析中，将通过这一研究项目形成关于如何部署Transkrabs等数字工具的更具批判性的观点。

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a core tool in making digital archival material more accessible. Nevertheless, in these studies users and their behaviours are often neglected. Working in close collaboration with the National Library of Scotland (NLS), this studentship will deduce how one AI platform, the text recognition software Transkribus, can be best deployed to benefit user communities. An understanding of how implementing such systems might disrupt, extend and change traditional workflows at leading libraries and archives will also be reached. HTR technology can be seen as part of the wider trend of digitisation in archives - a trend which is also behind the newfound focus on 'digital humanities'. Archives are currently looking to employ such digital software precisely, undergoing a reimagining of how they act as custodians of historical material. Nowadays, internet access has become so ubiquitous that discussions of a 'post-custodial world', where archives are mere 'access hubs' or 'virtual archives without walls', has emerged. This change is only seen to increase and, as such, the emphasis on systems like Transkribus will only grow. Such questions will be asked as; how can libraries embed themselves within digitisation workflows effectively? How might HTR usage disrupt or enhance existing archival practices? What institutional, ethical and infrastructural issues need to be tackled to take up HTR more widely? Taking place on the ground with the NLS, especially its Digital Archives and Manuscript Divisions, as well as with the developers of Transkribus at the University of Innsbruck, key access to relevant areas of interest will be enabled. Such an opportunity will allow an analysis of the software in context and the application of ethnographic approaches in understanding how HTR relates to tradition palaeographic practice. Occurring in year two of the post: a core component of the methodology of this project will be running user experience testing with members of the public at the NLS, extending their existing outreach activities, using material from the John Murray Archive, evaluating barriers and strengthens in using Transkribus. Other areas of user analysis will be made available, including pop-up exhibitions tied to the NLS's annual events, as well as showcases through the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH). Through the supervision of Prof Terras, opportunities to speak about research findings at the annual Transkribus conference will be taken up also. Much research into AI is currently amorphous future-casting without this grassroot analysis of users. By reinserting users back into the analysis of such software, a more critical view of how to deploy digital tools like Transkribus will be formed through this research project.