Nonpro Archive

The Nonproliferation Archive (nonproarchive.com) is not a Fusion Labs project, as such, but it was built by Dr Ian Stewart alongside the other projects described on this site. The Nonproliferation Archive epitomises the types of project Dr Stewart is undertaking. The Nonpro Archive combines the old (historical materials) with the new (machine learning and AI).

Specifically, the Nonpro Archive leverages best in class open source software (Islandora) to house historic materials. It leverages machine learning approaches including Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning based transcription services (Whisper) to create document summaries and audio and video transcripts. 

The Nonpro Archive leverages advanced search techniques, timeline-based organisation techniques, and its own ontology to enable information discovery. 

A final important point about the Nonpro Archive is that it provides as a complete documentary history as exists at present. Such a documentary history, with associated added metadata, is an excellent source for training domain-specific machine learning tools. This is an opportunity that has not yet been leveraged. 

 

 

 

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