Title:
Unlocking 500 years of Real Data in Historical Spanish with AI

Speaker:
Prof Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Chair in Digital Humanities at Lancaster University

Date and time:
14 May 2026, 8:30 PM IST

Registration:
Registration is free for DHARTI members.
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Nonmembers can register for a nominal fee of Rs.100 after 8 May 2026.

Description:
This talk presents a world-leading AI infrastructure that is making 500 years of historical Spanish sources computationally readable for the first time. Built around the projects Digging into Early Colonial Mexico, Unlocking the Colonial Archive, and Fleets of New Spain, the programme uses script-specific Handwritten Text Recognition, deep-learning calligraphy classification, and LLM-based cleaning pipelines to automate transcription at national-archive scale.