Generative AI or ‘Traditional’ Digital Tools?: Experimenting with Biographical Data on Repeatedly Arrested Victims of Stalinism

• In Event: Decoding the Past: Digital Methods in Eastern Europe’s Twentieth Century beyond Digitization

Abstract

This paper looks at the history of people who were arrested mutiple times under Stalin through digital humanities methods. It explores tools that can be used to link information within digital databases, extract biographical data from digitized investigative files, apply machine learning for classifying victims' characteristics, and use GIS for mapping changes in their places of residence between arrests.

Author

• Liudmila Lyagushkina, U of Nottingham (UK)