Understanding Archives: Towards New Research Interfaces Relying on the
  Semantic Annotation of Documents
Nicolas Gutehrlé Iana Atanassova
The digitisation campaigns carried out by libraries and archives in recent
years have facilitated access to documents in their collections. However,
exploring and exploiting these documents remain difficult tasks due to the
sheer quantity of documents available for consultation. In this article, we
show how the semantic annotation of the textual content of study corpora of
archival documents allow to facilitate their exploitation and valorisation.
First, we present a methodological framework for the construction of new
interfaces based on textual semantics, then address the current technological
obstacles and their potential solutions. We conclude by presenting a practical
case of the application of this framework.