Exploring the archives of memory in Chile (1973-1990): an engineering perspective

The massive analysis of historical archives contains multiple challenges, such as the quality of the images, how to use information in different formats, detection of key information or how to find relationships between people, places and dates.

In this seminar, we will explain our motivations on this topic and how computer science can support the work being done in the social sciences and humanities.

📆Date: Tuesday, June 25.

 🕐Time: 12.45 p.m.

Location: Raúl Devés Hall, San Joaquín Campus, Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago.

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Program

12:45 - Reception.

13:00 - Opening of the Seminar, Juan Reutter, Director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), academic of the Institute of Mathematical and Computer Engineering (IMC UC); and of the Department of Computer Science of the Catholic University (DCC UC).

13:05 - Remarks by Pedro Bouchon, Vice Rector of Research of the Catholic University of Chile.

13:10 - Remarks by Loreto Valenzuela, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Catholic University of Chile.

13:15 - Relevance of the Archives of Memory of Chile 1973-1990. Hugo Rojas, Alberto Hurtado University and VioDemos Institute.

13:30 - Exploring Memory Archives: Engineering Challenges. Domingo Mery, academic DCC UC and CENIA researcher and Jocelyn Dunstan, academic IMC - DCC UC and IMFD researcher.

13:55 - Remarks by Patricio Bernedo, Director of the Center for Dialogue and Peace UC.

14:00 - Break - Pizzas

14:15 - Project Repository Archive Project on Foreigners, Memory and Human Rights (1973-1990), Felipe Mallea, Head of Studies Department, National Migration Service.

14:30 - Integration of Photographic Archives, OCR and Audio, Domingo Mery, DCC UC academic and CENIA researcher.

14:45 - Named Entity Recognition (NER) in natural language, Jocelyn Dunstan, academic IMC - DCC UC and IMFD researcher.

15:00 - Graph of repression: towards an integrated repository of information on human rights violations, Juan Reutter, Director IMFD, academic IMC UC - DCC UC.