A Century of Recovery – and Beyond - Marking the centenary of the Four Courts fire (1922) and the launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

Building the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland: Scope, Scale and Transformations Tuesday 28 June 2022, 12.00–14.00 h Trinity Long Room Hub How do you reconstruct a destroyed archive? Over the past three years, an interdisciplinary team of postdoctoral researchers in Dublin, Belfast and London has been working to make the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland a reality. Their extraordinary research, which has been conducted in close collaboration with experts in archival studies and conservation, combines ground-breaking Computer Science and historical expertise. This research showcase explores the challenges the team faced, and how their decisions have transformed the field. • Moderator: Lorna Hughes, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow • Dr Elizabeth Biggs, Beyond 2022 Medieval Exchequer Research Fellow, The National Archives (UK) • Dr David Brown, Archival Discovery Lead, Automated Handwritten Text Recognition • Dr Paul Dryburgh, Principal Records Specialist (Medieval) The National Archives (UK) Beyond 2022 Co-Investigator on Medieval Exchequer Gold Seam • Dr Brian Gurrin, Beyond 2022 Research Fellow, Census and related material • Dr Sarah Hendriks, Beyond 2022 Research Fellow, The National Archives (UK) • Dr Neil Johnston, Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives (UK) Beyond 2022 Co-Investigator on Archival Discovery • Dr Lynn Kilgallon, Medieval Exchequer records and Knowledge Graph (Humanities) • Dr Gary Munnelly, ADAPT Centre, Technical Architect • Dr Tim Murtagh, Beyond 2022 Research Fellow, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland • Dr Fabrizio Orlandi, ADAPT Centre, Knowledge Graph (Computer Science) • Dr Emer Gilmartin, ADAPT Centre, Researcher in Spoken Dialog Technology 31