Conference Agenda

L’octubre de 2024 es va aprovar el Pla transversal de gènere de l’Arxiu General de la Diputació de Barcelona, una eina estratègica per aplicar la perspectiva de gènere interseccional a tots els processos, tècniques i polítiques d’arxiu i gestió documental. S’exposaran les accions desenvolupades que tenen com a objectiu introduir la perspectiva de gènere en la metodologia arxivística i es convidarà el públic assistent a reflexionar sobre les conclusions assolides per durant el primer any.

L’octubre de 2024 es va aprovar el Pla transversal de gènere de l’Arxiu General de la Diputació de Barcelona, una eina estratègica i pionera per aplicar la perspectiva de gènere interseccional a tots els processos, tècniques i polítiques d’arxiu i gestió documental. El projecte es va impulsar des de la Secretaria General i compta amb la col·laboració de l’Àrea de Feminismes i Igualtat.

En la primera part es presentarà una breu introducció del pla i de la seva estructura organitzada en 43 accions concretes, 15 objectius específics distribuïts en els següents 4 àmbits d’actuació:

• Canvis en la cultura organitzativa i transformació professional

• Revisió de les tècniques, les eines i els processos

• Millora d’accés a la informació d’arxiu i foment de la recerca

• Revisió de les accions de difusió i comunicació

A continuació s’exposaran les accions desenvolupades durant el primer any d’aplicació del Pla que impacten directament en la metodologia arxivística i la gestió documental. En primer lloc, la modificació i ampliació de l’esquema de metadades i la gestió de la informació d’aquelles metadades referents al gènere i sexe en els diferents nivells de descripció, amb l’objectiu de visibilitzar figures que tradicionalment han estat ocultes. La datificació d’aquesta informació permetrà quantificar, cercar i recuperar de manera més precisa i impactarà en les activitats de difusió que se’n derivin.

En segon lloc, s’exposaran les conclusions extretes del debat sobre la fórmula de conciliar l’ús d’un llenguatge inclusiu i no sexista amb la conservació de la informació original del context de producció i com a partir de les conclusions es modificaran els protocols de gestió documental aplicables a la Diputació de Barcelona i als ens del seu sector públic.

Per concloure, es convidarà les persones participants a reflexionar sobre les conclusions assolides per l’Arxiu General durant aquest primer any.

In 2021 The Dutch Ministry of Education, Science and Culture started a 5 year program to improve the state of information governance and archving in all federal governmental organisations.

A part of this program is ‘Future Lab; Information Governance in 2030’. An interesting and valuable outcome of this project was a set of 9 new roles in information governance in 2030. In this session these new roles or jobs will be presented and discussed.

In 2021 The Dutch Ministry of Education, Science and Culture started a 5 year program to improve the state of information services and information management in all federal governmental organisations. One year earlier the highest body of control in the Dutch political system concluded that the Dutch federal government was no longer able to fulfil its duties to the Dutch civilians because of the poor state of the information management. One of the conclusions from the enquiry was that within the Dutch government the competency level of the information professionals was substandard as were the information systems and technical infrastructure. Harsh conclusions that required serious measurements. As a prove of urgency the government allocated a budget of € 780.000.000,-.

A large part of the budget was allocated to professional development of the information governance specialist, document managers and archivists, a group that was severely neglected the last decade and a half. Besides the introduction of a comprehensive education program a special project called ‘Future Lab’, aimed at innovation in information services and information governance, had to prepare the information professionals for the future.

One of the products of the ‘Future Lab’ is a set of future roles and new job titles. The goal of these new jobs is to launch the information professional and his added value into the ‘data era’. In this session the participants will learn more about the new roles and responsibilities the Information Professional of 2030! Learn how to prepare yourself for the near future!

The DoLoReS project, led by UAB and CVC, develops AI techniques for recognizing handwritten music scores and historical documents in low-resource scenarios, focusing on Catalan musical heritage. It created a corpus of 32 handwritten pieces (1,500 pages), transcribed into MusicXML. The project uses this data to train OMR models and GANs, improving recognition and generating synthetic scores. The project enhances preservation, accessibility, and appreciation of Catalan musical heritage.

This proposal presents the results of the DoLoReS project (Document Intelligence in Low-Resource Scenarios), led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Computer Vision Center (CVC). The project’s primary goal is to develop artificial intelligence techniques for the recognition of handwritten documents in low-resource environments (when labelled data is barely available), mainly music scores and ciphered documents. Concerning music scores, the project aims to develop Optical Music Recognition (OMR) techniques and tools for the automatic recognition of handwritten music scores, with a particular focus on disseminating Catalan musical heritage.

The first stage of the project consists of selecting and transcribing a large corpus of old, handwritten music. The goal is to use this data as ground truth to train and evaluate Deep Learning models. The selected works met specific criteria: they were composed by Catalan musicians, were preserved in their entirety within archives located in Catalonia, and, for visual coherence, were chronologically situated between the 18th and 20th centuries. This corpus—comprising 32 pieces and over 1,500 handwritten pages—was provided by the institutions that preserve them: the Xarxa d’Arxius Comarcals (Network of Regional Archives), the Gran Teatre del Liceu Society, and the Milà i Fontanals Institution of CSIC. A team of eight musicologists have then transcribed the music into a music exchange format called MusicXML while also providing the localisation of each of the music symbols and its correspondence in the transcription. This information is extracted using a combination of the MuseScore open-source program and a tailor-made Android application.

The project has now entered its second and final stage, focusing on AI development. Using the generated ground truth, the aim is twofold. First, to better train OMR models to recognize musical elements in scores and produce automatic transcriptions. Second, to train GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) to generate synthetic music scores that help in the training of OMR models. To date, over 11,000 music systems have been transcribed and aligned. Beyond its internal development, the project plans to make this material publicly available for the scientific community to support further research. Finally, one of the project’s ultimate goals is to present the transcribed material in live public concerts.

This initiative seeks not only to provide a technological solution for Optical Music Recognition in low-resource environments but also to contribute to the understanding and dissemination of previously unpublished Catalan musical heritage. By doing so, it aspires to go beyond preservation, expediting the intermediate processes of basic musical transcription and enhancing accessibility to this cultural legacy.