Bio

Zeljko Trbusic is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He completed his doctorate in 2022 with a work on the optimisation of optical character recognition processes in archival information systems.

He has published more than 30 scientific articles in journals and participated in numerous international scientific conferences on management, archival legislation, document digitisation, blockchain and artificial intelligence. He is a member of the Archives Education and Research Initiative (AERI) steering committee and an active member of the Croatian Archives Society and ICARUS Croatia. Zeljko Trbusic was awarded a scholarship from the AIEF Foundation (ARMA International Educational Foundation) in 2020 for his work in the field of information management.

Project

Building AI with Archives - Research into AI and Archives

His work during the residency will focus on developing an artificial intelligence model that makes it possible to recognise images and archival documents, analyse their structures and extract relevant metadata. The model will automatically identify and describe image segments in order to improve archive data visibility and make it more accessible. His research builds on a previous AI project, the InterPARES Trust group research study which included digitised portraits from the State Archives of Osijek, Croatia, and the Municipal Archives of Girona City Council. He will use his time in Andorra to boost the model with digitised images from the National Archives of Andorra.