Professor Declan O'Sullivan

Summary

SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology, is pioneering human-centric AI techniques for digital content technologies, including natural language, speech and video processing, intelligent machine translation, virtual and augmented reality, and personalised human-agent interactive systems, complemented by research on transparent approaches to data governance, regulatory compliance and multistakeholder approaches to digital ethics.

Funding Agency

Science Foundation Ireland

Programme

Research Centre

Summary

FAIRVASC uses semantic-web technologies to link vasculitis registries across Europe into a `single European dataset", and thus opens the door to new research into these challenging diseases. The programme ensures that all included registries are FAIR and that the infrastructure developed is aligned with developments in the European Joint Programme.

Funding Agency

European Vasculitis Society (EUVAS) and RITA European Reference Network

Programme

EJPRD

Summary

The Searobend project " which takes its name from an Old English word meaning `clever linkage" " will use techniques from computer science to link fifteen major resources for the study of English texts from the High Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300), making much clearer how much survives and what proportion of this is available digitally. This will considerably enhance the utility of these resources for scholars and facilitate the next generation of research on this formative period of literary, linguistic and cultural history.

Funding Agency

Irish Research Council

Programme

Coalesce

Project Type

DIgital Humanities

Summary

Beyond 2022 is an all-island and international collaborative research project working to create a virtual reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland, which was destroyed in the opening engagement of the Civil War on June 30th, 1922. The `Record Treasury" at the Public Record Office of Ireland stored seven centuries of Irish records dating back to the time of the Normans. Together with our 5 Core Archival Partners and over 40 other Participating Institutions in Ireland, Britain and the USA, we are working to recover what was lost in that terrible fire one hundred years ago. On the centenary of the Four Courts blaze at the end of June 2022, the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland was launched online at https://virtualtreasury.ie/. Many millions of words from destroyed documents are linked and reassembled from copies, transcripts and other records scattered among the collections of our archival partners. This brings together a rich array of replacement items within an immersive 3-D reconstruction of the destroyed building.

Funding Agency

Government of Ireland Project Ireland 2040

Programme

Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

Project Type

Digital Humanities

Summary

ALIGNED will develop new ways to build and maintain IT systems that use big data on the web. ALIGNED brings together world class computer science researchers (TCD, Oxford, Leipzig), software companies specialised in data-intensive systems (Sematic Web Company), information companies (Wolters Kluwer Germany) and academic curators of large datasets describing world history and archaeology (Oxford, Poznan). Together they will create more efficient methods of building IT systems that extract, process, publish and share web data. This will lay the foundations for the next generation of big data systems that lower costs and deal with the web data challenges of dynamism, complexity, scale and inconsistency.

Funding Agency

European Union

Programme

H2020