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Lecture 40: Family History Technology

Lecture 40: Family History Technology. We know where we’ve Been … ... But where are we GOING? A Peek at the Future Part I. Family History Technology. “ The Lord has guided the development of information technology and accelerated its role in work for the dead , and will continue

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Lecture 40: Family History Technology

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  1. Lecture 40: Family History Technology We know where we’veBeen … ... But where are we GOING? A Peek at the Future Part I

  2. Family History Technology “The Lord has guided the development of information technology and accelerated its role in work for the dead, and will continue to do so. However, we stand only on the threshold of what we can do with these tools. I feel that our most enthusiastic projections can capture only a tiny glimpse of how these tools can help us - and of the eternal consequences of these efforts.” • President Howard W. Hunter, 100th anniversary of the Genealogical Society of Utah

  3. Technology Milestonesin Family History 1927 1938 1963 1969 ‘70 ‘84 ‘90 ‘93 ’99 ’01 ‘05 ‘11 Past Century

  4. Technology Milestonesin Family History Family History Online access/search of digital records Granite Vault Family Search TIB microfilm IGI PAF Large scale Scanning/Indexing 1927 1938 1963 1969 ‘70 ‘84 ‘90 ‘93 ’99 ’01 ‘05 ‘11 Linkage match/merge Temple Ready Gedcom GIANT (Genealogical Indexing And Name Tabulation) Fuzzy Matching, search with name variants, locality familysearch.org new.familysearch AI/Research Guidance Social Networks/Collaboration Genealogical websites share/edit

  5. Technology Milestonesin Family History Family History Technology Disk Drives Digital Cameras PCs Cellphones Wireless PDAs Online access/search of digital records Granite Vault Family Search First Electronic Computer WWW email TIB microfilm IGI PAF Large scale Scanning/Indexing 1927 1938 1963 1969 ‘70 ‘84 ‘90 ‘93 ’99 ’01 ‘05 ‘11 Linkage match/merge Temple Ready Gedcom GIANT (Genealogical Indexing And Name Tabulation) Fuzzy Matching, search with name variants, locality familysearch.org new.familysearch AI/Research Guidance Social Networks/Collaboration Genealogical websites share/edit

  6. Technology Milestonesin Family History capacity Family History Technology Disk Drives Digital Cameras PCs cost Cellphones Wireless PDAs Online access/search of digital records Granite Vault Family Search First Electronic Computer WWW email TIB microfilm IGI PAF Large scale Scanning/Indexing 1927 1938 1963 1969 ‘70 ‘84 ‘90 ‘93 ’99 ’01 ‘05 ‘11 Linkage match/merge Temple Ready Gedcom GIANT (Genealogical Indexing And Name Tabulation) Fuzzy Matching, search with name variants, locality familysearch.org new.familysearch AI/Research Guidance Social Networks/Collaboration Genealogical websites share/edit

  7. Technology Milestonesin Family History capacity Family History Technology Disk Drives Digital Cameras PCs cost Cellphones Wireless PDAs Online access/search of digital records Granite Vault Family Search First Electronic Computer WWW email TIB microfilm IGI PAF Large scale Scanning/Indexing 1927 1938 1963 1969 ‘70 ‘84 ‘90 ‘93 ’99 ’01 ‘05 ‘11 Linkage match/merge Temple Ready Gedcom GIANT (Genealogical Indexing And Name Tabulation) Fuzzy Matching, search with name variants, locality familysearch.org new.familysearch AI/Research Guidance Social Networks/Collaboration Genealogical websites share/edit

  8. Family History TechnologyWorkshop (fht.byu.edu)

  9. Relative Finder on Facebook http://roots.cs.byu.edu/devdigroots/

  10. Relative Finder (http://roots.cs.byu.edu/digroots/) Find our how you are related to your friends and many other famous people, leaders, kings, queens, etc.

  11. Historic Journals Project:aka Facebook circa 1860 http://journals.byu.edu/

  12. www.onepagegenealogy.com 14-generation pedigree on 1 page

  13. Virtual Pedigree

  14. The Digital Microfilm Pipeline* * Ty Davies, Jake Gehring Film in Searchable Text Out

  15. The Digital Microfilm Pipeline What’s inside the box? ? What processing steps have to happen in between?

  16. The Digital Microfilm Pipeline Crop Binarize Zone OCR Database Label Scan Enhance Register Text/ Bitmaps Waypointing Full Text Index/ Search • Index/ • Search • by • Word • ROI • Pattern Intelligent Indexing Intelligent Browsing Visual Index/Search by Zone, Label, ROI

  17. The Digital Microfilm Pipeline Crop Binarize Zone OCR Database Label Scan Enhance Register Text/ Bitmaps Waypointing Full Text Index/ Search • Index/ • Search • by • Word • ROI • Pattern Intelligent Indexing Intelligent Browsing Visual Index/Search by Zone, Label, ROI

  18. Scanning the Granite Vault 2.5 Million rolls of microfilm ~ 1300 images per roll Up to 25 Megabytes per image 1300 x 25,000,000 x 2,500,000 = 81.25 Petabytes

  19. The Digital Microfilm Pipeline Crop Binarize Zone OCR Database Label Scan Enhance Register Text/ Bitmaps Waypointing Full Text Index/ Search • Index/ • Search • by • Word • ROI • Pattern Intelligent Indexing Intelligent Browsing Visual Index/Search by Zone, Label, ROI

  20. Cropping • Scan continuously in Ribbons • Crop in batch, exploit consensus

  21. The Digital Microfilm Pipeline Crop Binarize Zone OCR Database Label Scan Enhance Register Text/ Bitmaps Waypointing Full Text Index/ Search • Index/ • Search • by • Word • ROI • Pattern Intelligent Indexing Intelligent Browsing Visual Index/Search by Zone, Label, ROI

  22. Histogram Enhancement (Left) Original scanned record (Right) After Enhancement

  23. Threshold Enhancement (Left) Original scanned record (Right) After thresholding for Bleed-through removal, with Enhancement, and Antialiasing

  24. Stroke Enhancement (Left) Original scanned record (Right) After Matched Filter Stroke Enhancement

  25. The Digital Microfilm Pipeline Crop Binarize Zone OCR Database Label Scan Enhance Register Text/ Bitmaps Waypointing Full Text Index/ Search • Index/ • Search • by • Word • ROI • Pattern Intelligent Indexing Browsing Visual Index/Search by Zone, Label, ROI

  26. Binarization Median Filter Subtraction for background elimination

  27. The Digital Microfilm Pipeline Crop Binarize Zone OCR Database Label Scan Enhance Register Text/ Bitmaps Waypointing Full Text Index/ Search • Index/ • Search • by • Word • ROI • Pattern Intelligent Indexing Intelligent Browsing Visual Index/Search by Zone, Label, ROI

  28. Registration Not registered Registered Documents must be aligned, rotated and scaled to register them

  29. Registration Register . . Alignment, rotation and scaling using the Fourier-Mellin Transform allows registration to sub-degree and sub-pixel accuracy.

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