Historical Research Use Cases

In the collaboratory we will work on specific use cases, rather than chalk and talk.

We encourage participating graduate students and public historians to share their ideas for use cases and we will do our best to structure a one hour session around one or more of these student contributed ideas.

To get the ball rolling, here are some possible use cases, all of which we have found useful within the context of analyzing, linking, interrogating and communicating English High Court of Admiralty legal depositions from the C16th and C17th, but can be applied to any dataset and any period.

BY TASK

Creation of a personal doctoral research archive powered by a vectorbase

Design and production of analytical summarizations of historical legal depositions

Creation of linked data from analytical summarizations

Creation of a linked data web browser and visualizer

Creation of a knowledge graph from linked data

Creation of tailored LLM research assistants

Devising and running an assistant or agent supported history simulation

BY HISTORICAL TOPIC

Barbary pirates