Charting Kasos’ Legacy: AI and the Digital Revival of Past Memories
Charting Kasos’ Legacy: AI and the Digital Revival of Past Memories
Author(s): Mary Vigliraki, Georgios Tsoumanis, Katerina Kontopanagou, Athanasios Tsipis, Vasileios KomianosSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Library and Information Science, Archiving, Electronic information storage and retrieval, History of Art
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: multimodal digital oral history (MDOH); maritime history; archival research; Kasos Island, artificial intelligence
Summary/Abstract: This paper examines how oral testimony, family documents, and photographic archives intersect in reconstructing the microhistory of Kasos, an Aegean island shaped by maritime mobility and diaspora. Based on eighty interviews and vernacular materials – dowries, wills, letters, and visual collections – the study emphasizes community-centred archival recovery. It explores cross-referential tensions between oral and documentary sources, the value of silences, and affective memory. Incorporating AI tools for metadata, transcription, and linking, with human-in-the-loop validation, the project reframes the archive as a dynamic, negotiated space contributing to debates on oral history, memory, and digital heritage.
Journal: Изкуствоведски четения
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 595-614
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
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