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Digitising Death: Benchmarking Genealogical Data and Recovering Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland Cover

Digitising Death: Benchmarking Genealogical Data and Recovering Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland

Open Access
|Mar 2026

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Figure 1

Transkribus tagging of GO MS 68 fol. 30v (funeral entry of Amy Savage) showing double headers and paragraph region.

Figure 2

Transkribus tagging of GO MS 64 fol. 48r showing empty headers being used to separate individual entries.

Figure 3

Funeral Entry of James Barnewall (NLI GO MS 66 fol. 3v).

Figure 4

High-Level experiment setting with experiment setting.

Figure 5

Experiment detail with inputs and expected experiment outputs.

Table 1

Stanford Results organised by overall best (right), overall worst(left).

FILETRAEYECURTKVMAN
ESAESAESAESAESA
0001r4100.00%4100.00%333.33%4100.00%683.33%
0001r580.00%757.14%683.33%580.00%785.71%
0001v1070.00%887.50%1369.23%1172.73%1384.62%
0001v650.00%580.00%6100.00%683.33%580.00%
0002r3100.00%3100.00%366.67%3100.00%3100.00%
0002r1163.64%2277.27%1384.62%1283.33%1172.73%
0002v1428.57%1442.86%1338.46%1384.62%
0002v520.00%425.00%475.00%520.00%475.00%
0003r666.67%683.33%7100.00%6100.00%6100.00%
0003r1040.00%1136.36%944.44%955.56%1060.00%
0003v1100.00%250.00%250.00%250.00%250.00%
0003v1968.42%2272.73%2892.86%2479.17%2378.26%
Avg65.61%69.94%70.19%71.88%79.52%
Table 2

BERT Results organised by overall best (right), overall worst(left).

FILETRAEYETKVMANCUR
ESAESAESAESAESA
0001r875.00%875.00%875.00%875.00%771.43%
0001r757.14%666.67%757.14%6100.00%683.33%
0001v1154.55%1172.73%1181.82%1291.67%1392.31%
0001v1136.36%1145.45%966.67%977.78%8100.00%
0002r3100.00%3100.00%3100.00%3100.00%3100.00%
0002r1353.85%3161.29%1258.33%1250.00%1384.62%
0002v2123.81%1643.75%2161.90%1844.44%
0002v1136.36%633.33%1030.00%666.67%666.67%
0003r742.86%850.00%683.33%785.71%7100.00%
0003r1070.00%1154.55%1050.00%1442.86%977.78%
0003v1100.00%250.00%2100.00%2100.00%2100.00%
0003v3056.67%3063.33%3167.74%3366.67%2996.55%
Avg58.88%61.12%67.82%76.52%84.76%
Table 3

Combined results organised by overall best (right), overall worst(left).

FILETRAEYETKVCURMAN
ESAESAESAESAESA
0001r5100.00%5100.00%683.33%683.33%5100.00%
0001r757.14%650.00%560.00%580.00%683.33%
0001v1353.85%966.67%1172.73%1471.43%1283.33%
0001v1154.55%580.00%966.67%887.50%785.71%
0002r3100.00%3100.00%3100.00%366.67%3100.00%
0002r1770.59%3060.00%1764.71%1376.92%1650.00%
0002v2737.04%1752.94%1850.00%2263.64%
0002v2250.00%540.00%1020.00%580.00%666.67%
0003r1457.14%862.50%785.71%6100.00%785.71%
0003r3565.71%1540.00%1154.55%1070.00%1163.64%
0003v1050.00%250.00%366.67%366.67%366.67%
0003v944.44%2568.00%2875.00%2796.30%1794.12%
Avg61.71%65.20%66.86%77.40%78.57%
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.491 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 30, 2025
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Accepted on: Jan 21, 2026
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Published on: Mar 16, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Bronagh Ann McShane, Diego Rincon-Yanez, Felix Vanden Borre, Jane Ohlmeyer, Declan O’Sullivan, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.