Humanities · OECD FoS 6.1 · China MoE 0602 中国史 / 0603 世界史
History
历史学
L1Assistive ↑ Rising Score 1.20 · Last reviewed 2026-10-21 · Next review 2027-01-19
BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH 2026-10-14 AI · incrementalField · major
Schmidt Sciences awards $10M to AI & humanities programme (19 projects) ↗
Funds 19 AI-and-humanities projects
Why this level
Handwritten text recognition (e.g., Transkribus) speeds up archive transcription; Schmidt Sciences funded a $10M AI-and-humanities programme in 2026, but historical interpretation remains human.
S = 0.30·method + 0.35·discovery + 0.25·adoption + 0.10·education (education scores 0 when there is no evidence; if empty, the other weights are renormalised)
Sources
Composite 0.75–1.49: AI is an aid in parts of research or practice, with cases or surveys, but no recognised AI-key result. All levels →
Research directions
Handwritten archive recognitionHistorical retrieval & QADigital humanities
Papers
- The artificial intelligence cooperative: READ-COOP, Transkribus, and the benefits of shared community infrastructure for automated text recognition
HTR at archive scale
2025-01-20 · Open Research Europe
- American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers
Makes historical newspapers computable at scale
2023-08-24 · arXiv
- Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition
Foundational Transkribus paper
2019-09-09 · Journal of Documentation
- Humanist learning and artificial intelligences: critical literacies for digital worlds
Calls for critical reflection on generative AI in classics, history and archaeology teaching and methods.
2026-10-19 · OpenAlex · The journal of classics teaching · Christine L. Johnston
- Design Considerations in Low-Resource Archival OCR: A Case Study in Lakota
Fine-tuning small VLMs for OCR post-correction on 35 pages cuts Lakota archival CER from 17.1% to 3.9%.
2026-10-18 · arXiv · Téa Wright, Laura X. Ma, Claudia Iron Hawk, Hannah J. Haynie
- Evaluating Cloud and Self-Hosted OCR Systems for Arabic, English, and French Documents: Bounding Box Detection, Text Recognition, and Mathematical Expression Recognition
Compares cloud and self-hosted OCR on Arabic, English and French documents for multilingual archives.
2026-10-18 · arXiv · Jumana Alsubhi, Ahmed Alhusayni, Abdulrahman Gharawi, Israa Hamdine
- Enhanced Script Identification for Multilingual Document Analysis: A Dataset and Machine Learning Approach for Kashmiri and English
A 4,423-image Kashmiri/English script dataset with HOG features and four classifiers.
2026-10-18 · OpenAlex · Indian Journal of Science and Technology · Rafia Amin, Rumaan Bashir
- From arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv and OpenAlex (last ~30 days); summaries written by AIMap from the abstract.
Milestones 6
Big glowing nodes are leaps: AI leap cool · Field leap warm · double ring = both
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Policy
Schmidt Sciences awards $10M to AI & humanities programme (19 projects)Funds 19 AI-and-humanities projects
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Dataset
CoMMA transcribes 32,763 medieval manuscripts with AI in four monthsStep change in access to medieval sources
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Deployment
Swedish National Archives makes 1.2M handwritten pages searchable with its HTR modelNational-archive-scale deployment
RiksarkivetTo be verified -
Paper
READ-COOP and Transkribus: shared infrastructure for automated text recognition (Open Research Europe)HTR at archive scale
Open Research Europe -
Dataset
American Stories: structured text from ~20M pages of historical US newspapers via deep-learning layout + OCR (arXiv 2308.12477)Makes historical newspapers computable at scale
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Paper
Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition (J. Documentation)Foundational Transkribus paper
Journal of Documentation
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More papers & repos 3
Latest news 3
- European National Archives meet in Dublin Castle to discuss the impact of AI and New Technologies on state archives and recordsIrish Presidency of the Council of the EUen
- Schmidt Sciences awards $10 million to one of the world’s largest AI and humanities research programsSchmidt SciencesenTo be verified
- 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed using AIMedievalists.neten