![]() ![]() Although it has been a tourist attraction in the dockyard since 1922, and is now in the care of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, technically it remains part of the navy as the flagship of the First Sea Lord. HMS Victory, on which Admiral Lord Nelson sailed to defeat the French and Spanish forces and his own death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is now the oldest ship in the world still in naval commission. “We think this could be of great interest to the wider cultural world, for institutions looking to quickly, efficiently and accurately enrich the data relating to their collections,” Baesens says. Bart Baesens, a lecturer at Southampton and professor of big data and analytics at KU Leuven University in Belgium, who supervised students Siddhi Mahendra Pawar, Donheng Wang and Arundati Roy, said they had used large language models-deep learning algorithms which can recognise, summarise and generate content-to automatically classify images and artefacts. The programme is also learning to recognise and match images stored in different sections of the database. The AI programme developed for HMS Victory is still a work in progress, but already some images are automatically being tagged and added to the database and the digital 3D model of one of the most famous ships ever built. Digitisation has speeded up the process, but each entry still has to be made individually by a human being. Traditionally records were added to museum collections on individual cards in spidery handwriting. Crucially for the first time Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used to help speed up the process, in a pioneering project developed with Masters students from the University of Southampton. The images record every inch of work that the team hopes will keep the ship sound for the next half century. Every day hundreds more photographs are added to the database recording progress on Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, its ribs gaping as shipwrights strip out wood decayed beyond salvation or patch in new timber to fill holes.
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