Building an Automated DH Tool Awareness System with Playwright, RSS, and AI
Why track DH tools In the Digital Humanities (DH) field, new tools are continuously developed and released. OCR engines for historical documents, IIIF viewers, text transcription platforms, and kuzushiji (classical Japanese cursive) recognition systems are just a few examples. In Japan, several organizations actively develop and publish such tools: NDL (National Diet Library of Japan) develops OCR tools for digitized materials. CODH (Center for Open Data in the Humanities, ROIS-DS) maintains kuzushiji recognition models and the IIIF Curation Platform. National Museum of Japanese History develops Minna de Honkoku (a crowdsourced transcription platform) and related IIIF tools. Keeping up with these releases manually is time-consuming. The goal was to build a system that systematically collects new DH tool releases and generates weekly summary articles, similar to a “current awareness” service. ...
