Building the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland: Scope, Scale and Transformations

Event Timings:
12:00–14:00

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