Using digital technology to access and store African art
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Online ancient documents: Armarius
Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Document engineering
Digital libraries without databases: the Bleek and Lloyd collection
ECDL'07 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Creating a handwriting recognition corpus for Bushman languages
ICADL'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Asia-pacific digital libraries: for cultural heritage, knowledge dissemination, and future creation
A comparison of machine learning techniques for handwritten |Xam word recognition
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Cultural heritage artefacts are often digitised in order to allow for them to be easily accessed by researchers and scholars. In the case of the Bleek and Lloyd dictionary of the |xam Bushman language, 14000 pages were digitised. These pages could not be transcribed, however, because the language and script are both extinct. A custom digital library system was therefore created to manage and provide access to this collection as a purely "visual dictionary". Results from user testing showed that users found the system to be interesting, simple, efficient and informative.