The International Review of Scottish Studies has published SCOS Co-Director Jim Ambuske's essay, “'Ours is a Court of Papers'”: Exploring Scotland and the British Atlantic World using the Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project," in its 2019 issue as part of a special feature on Scottish history and the digital humanities.
Ambuske's contribution details SCOS's origins, the potential for Session Papers to unlock hidden histories of Scotland and the British Atlantic World, and the project team's recent collaborative work with the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh to develop new techniques involving machine learning to expedite the cataloguing of Session Papers and enable the identification of individuals, places, and other entities within the documents.
The essay demonstrates the progress made on SCOS since the publication of Ambuske's earlier article, co-authored with Randi Flaherty and Loren S. Moulds, "Recovering Hidden Histories of Early America and the British Atlantic World with the Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project," which was published in the journal Scottish Archives in 2018.
