Simple DL

Period

2019-

Description

The goal of this project is to create a toolkit for the creation of low-resource archives. The software is intended to be as simple as possible, mostly off-line and mostly static. The system was developed primarily to support the FHYA project but it is also being targeted at other archival projects.

Various aspects of digital library architectures are being investigating in the context of simple archives, including cloud provisioning, entity management and bias and fairness.

Team Members

Hussein Suleman, Soham Singh, Jarryd Dunn, Laaiqah Hassim, Yash Ramsamy, Mustafa Ali, Tumelo Makgaka

Publications

Jarryd Dunn and Hussein Suleman (2022) Evaluating Automated and Hybrid Neural Disambiguation for African Historical Named Entities. Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence Research: Third Southern African Conference, SACAIR 2022, 5-9 December, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Henry Fagan, Grant McNulty, Carolyn Hamilton and Hussein Suleman (2022) Unpacking the Possibilities of a Vernacular Language Archive to Resources for African Indigenous Languages. Proceedings of 3rd Workshop in Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL), 30 November 2022, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Hussein Suleman (2022) Investigating Evolving Collection Support with Simple Tools. Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2022), 30 November - 2 December 2022, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Soham Singh and Hussein Suleman (2022) A Comparison of Information Retrieval Pre-processing Algorithms applied to African Historical Data. Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2022), 30 November - 2 December 2022, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Soham Singh and Hussein Suleman (2022) Investigating User Control to Mitigate Bias when Searching African Historical Data. Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2022), 30 November - 2 December 2022, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Bernard Akhigbe, Khanyisa Mtombeni, Melissa Densmore and Hussein Suleman (2022) Do people in low resource environments only need search?. Proceedings of 35th Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT 2022), 18-20 July 2022, Cape Town, South Africa.

Hussein Suleman (2021) Simple DL: A toolkit to create simple digital libraries. Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2021, Virtual Event, 1-3 December 2021, Springer, LNCS 13133.

Hussein Suleman (2019) Investigating the effectiveness of client-side search/browse without a network connection, Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), 4-7 November 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Springer. Available: http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1333/

Hussein Suleman (2019) Reflections on Design Principles for a Digital Repository in a Low Resource Environment, Proceedings of HistoInformatics Workshop 2019, 13 September 2019, Oslo, Norway, CEUR. Available: http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1331/