Author ORCID

0000-0002-8326-8568

Date of this Version

9-2019

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Poster

Abstract

This poster at the 2019 annual meeting of the South Florida Archivists highlights a project where the facial recognition technology of Adobe Lightroom CC is used to identify individuals in photographs held by a local municipal archive. The photographs contain hundreds of images showing unnamed commissioners and city workers from the 1970s to the 1990s, with most of the images lacking metadata or information. Various strategies are employed to identify key city officials in the photographs, allowing their names to be added to the metadata of the records hosted in a digital repository. The poster demonstrates the potential and limitations of facial recognition technology in digitized archives, aiming to benefit other archivists who have projects where they are trying to identify individuals in images.

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