Europeana: mapping postcards

Project Timeline

Timeframe	Task	Completion
Week 4	Explore postcard search results on Europeana's website Study the Europeana API documentation and get an access key. Extract data of postcards using the Europeana API	✅
Week 5	Clean data using metadata. Analyze the data of Europeana postcards Prepare sample image sets and explore prediction methods	✅
Week 6	Decide to focus on postcards with text Test and evaluate the effectiveness of multiple OCR models	✅
Week 7	Use OCR and NER for prediction Test and evaluate the effectiveness of multiple NER tools Explore alternative forecasting methods	✅
Week 8	Introduce ChatGPT for the prediction(OCR+GPT-3.5+NER) Try to make predictions directly using GPT-4	✅
Week 9	Optimize GPT-3.5 prompt for better results Compare the results of OCR + GPT-3.5 (optimized prompts) to those of GPT-4.	✅
Week 10	Complete the pipeline for the entire prediction process Prepare a sample set to evaluate the effect	✅
Week 11	Explore the visualization methods Refine the test set and analyze it	✅
Week 12	Use the TA's annotation tool for test set evaluation Build the visualization platform
Week 13	Testing and refinement of the Web application Analyze the results of the test set evaluation
Week 14	Prepare the final report and presentation

Github Repository

• Europeana-mapping-postcards