Museum of New Mexico Foundation (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture)

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, a library, archives, and museum located in Santa Fe will partner with the New Mexico State Library Tribal Libraries Program, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, and other stakeholders to investigate and evaluate the potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for helping connect users to archival content. The project team will examine how NLP can be most effectively trained to work with archival material, test methods for combining NLP results with archival description, and work iteratively to develop user interfaces informed by usability testing throughout the project. This work builds on earlier IMLS-funded research using NLP to aid browsing and incorporates repository stakeholders to increase the applicability of results to various material and software systems.