A Knowledge Graph for Spanish American Notary Records presents a digital project aimed at improving access to seventeenth-century Spanish American notary records using deep learning and knowledge management technologies. Based on digitized manuscripts from the National Archives of Argentina, the project brings together work on handwritten text recognition, information retrieval, and knowledge graphs to support the analysis of records that are often difficult to read and search. Led by Viviana Grieco (University of Missouri – Kansas City) and Praveen Rao (University of Missouri – Columbia), the project methods and documentation will likely be useful for readers interested in archival manuscripts and computational work with historical records.
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