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Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests (short)
- Information extraction
- Web technologies
- Image processing
- User interface design
Biographical details
Mike has a BA in History from Lancaster University and an MA in Digital Asset Management from King's College London. Following university, he became interested in computer programming and worked for several years as a software developer in the visual effects industry, primarily focused on data management and the development of workflow tools.
After joining the Centre for e-Research at KCL, Mike conducted research into open-source OCR infrastructures for historical texts. Later becoming a Research Associate in the Department of Digital Humanities, he was involved in a variety of projects, and now works principally on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), focusing on data integration, user interfaces, and automated metadata extraction.
Education/Academic qualification
Digital Asset Management, Master of Arts, King's College London (KCL)
Award Date: 1 Jan 2014
Bachelor of Arts, Lancaster University
Award Date: 1 Jan 2002
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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Ocropodium: open source OCR for small-scale historical archives
Blanke, T., Bryant, M. & Hedges, M., Feb 2012, In: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE. 38, 1, p. 76 - 86 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project
Bryant, M., Blanke, T., Hedges, M. & Palmer, R., 2010, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010. Lalmas, M., Jose, J., Rauber, A., Sebastiani, F. & Frommholz, I. (eds.). N/A ed. Berlin and New York: Springer, Vol. N/A. p. 522 - 525 4 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; vol. 6273).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Comparison of Named Entity Recognition tools for raw OCR text
Rodriquez, K. J., Bryant, M., Blanke, T. & Luszczynska, M., 2012, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Processing 2012. Jancsary, J. (ed.). Wien, Austria: Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI), Vol. 5. p. 410-414 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Open source optical character recognition for historical research
Blanke, T., Bryant, M. & Hedges, M., Aug 2012, In: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION. 68, 5, p. 659-683 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Linked data for humanities research—The SPQR experiment: 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems Technologies (DEST), 2012
Blanke, T., Bodard, G., Bryant, M., Dunn, S., Hedges, M., Jackson, M. & Scott, D., 2012, 2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems Technologies (DEST). p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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EHRI - European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
Blanke, T. (Primary Investigator), Bryant, M. (Co-Investigator), Gartner, R. (Co-Investigator), Greenway, G. (Co-Investigator), Hedges, M. (Co-Investigator) & Speck, R. (Co-Investigator)
1/05/2015 → 30/04/2019
Project: Research