Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
A Research Division of Carnegie Mellon University

Hunt Institute Archives Text Discovery Platform

Search a large and growing portion of our online collections, including handwritten documents.
PROTOTYPE

This prototype uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, including a vision-language model (VLM) capable of reading handwritten documents as well as typed and printed text, to create searchable transcriptions of digitized materials in the Hunt Institute Archives. This makes it possible to search the textual contents of individual pages, including material that may not be described in the archival catalog.

Use Keyword search for specific words, names, dates, scientific names, or phrases. Try Semantic search (experimental) to describe a topic, question, or kind of material when you do not know the exact wording used in the documents.

About the AI-generated transcriptions

The transcriptions are generated automatically from page images and may contain errors, especially with difficult handwriting, unusual names, multiple languages, image-quality problems, or complex layouts. They are intended primarily as a discovery aid rather than authoritative transcriptions.

Each result provides the generated transcription and links to the original digitized material and associated archival description so that readings can be checked against the source. The transcription workflow uses AI models run locally by the Hunt Institute.

About Keyword and Semantic search

Keyword search is the default and matches the wording in the transcriptions. Results contain all your terms. Use quotes for an exact phrase. Substring matching is supported, so aceae can find plant-family names ending in -aceae.

Semantic search (experimental) is useful when you know what kind of material you are looking for but do not know the words used in the documents. It ranks transcribed passages by similarity of meaning, so relevant results may not contain the exact words in your query.

Semantic queries can be broad research topics, descriptions of activities or relationships, or natural-language questions. For example:

Semantic search is not a chatbot: a question is used as a search query, and the system returns archival passages that appear conceptually related to it rather than generating an answer or summary. Short descriptions and ordinary research questions generally work better than lists of disconnected keywords. Quotation marks have no special meaning in Semantic mode. Cross-language matching may work in some cases, but it should not be treated as translation.

Keyword and Semantic search are complementary. Keyword search lets you require particular wording; Semantic search can surface differently worded passages about the same subject. Depending on the research question, trying both can reveal different useful material.

Open a result: use the prominent page-and-transcription link to see the metadata, PDF, and full transcription. Keyword-search terms are highlighted in the transcription.

Archives Collections Database (ArchivesSpace): the Collection, Item/Folder, and Digital Object links open the corresponding archival records. Collection-level dates describe the collection as a whole, not necessarily the specific item or page.

If a PDF does not load: on the detail page, use the Digital Object link, click “Go to file” in ArchivesSpace, and navigate to the page number shown here.

Current limitations
  • Automated transcriptions can contain missing or incorrect text or unintended repetition. Difficult handwriting, image quality, unusual layouts, and multiple languages can reduce accuracy. Always consult the original page image when an exact reading matters.
  • Semantic search remains experimental. Its rankings are an additional discovery aid, not a complete or definitive set of relevant results, and highly ranked pages can sometimes be only broadly related.
  • This is an active prototype. Search coverage, transcriptions, functionality, and the interface may continue to change as additional archival material is processed and the system is improved.

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Page 7 · DO #1007 · 319_Love_Bx2FF52r

Collection
Áskell Löve (1916–1994) papers
Item/Folder
Yugoslavian Trip and Incident (13 of 15), 1969–1970
Digital Object
DO #1007, page 7
Collection-level dates
1950–1987
Open PDF at page 7 ↗

Page transcription

Selected authors in geobotanical cytotaxonomy:

Dr. G. W. Argus, Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon 97403.

Professor Dr. T. W. Böcher, Institute for Plant Anatomy and Cytology,
University of Copenhagen, Sølvgade 83, Copenhagen K., Denmark.

Dr. Z. Bolikhovskikh, Laboratory of Cytology, Komarov Botanical Institute,
Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Popov Street 2, Leningrad 22, USSR.

Dr. J. Contandriopoulos, Laboratoire de Botanique, Faculté des Sciences,
Université de Marseilles, Marseille, France.

Professor Cl. Favarger, Institut de Botanique, Université de Neuchâtel,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Professor Verne Grant, Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum, University of
Arizona, Superior, Arizona 85273.

Professor W. F. Grant, Department of Genetics, McGill University, McDonald
College P. O., near Montreal, Canada.

Dr. P. Hanelt, Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Kr. Aschersleben
Germany-DDR.

Professor C. B. Heiser, Department of Botany, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana 47405.

Dr. Keith Jones, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond,
Surrey, England.

Professor B. N. Kapoor, Department of Biology, Saint Mary's University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Dr. Ebbe Kjellqvist, Agricultural Research and Introduction Center,
P. O. Box 29, İzmir-Karsiyaka, Turkey.

Dr. S. I. Kožuharov, Institute of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
kr. Geo Milev, Sofia 13, Bulgaria.

Professor K. Larsen, Botanical Institute, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Professor B. Lövkvist, Varholms väg 8c, Lund, Sweden.

Professor J. Majovský, Department of Botany, Komenský University, Rēnová 53,
Brezislave, Czechoslovakia.

Professor J. K. Morton, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. G. A. Milligan, Plant Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture,
Ottawa, Canada.

Professor J. G. Packer, Department of Botany, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada.

Professor D. Phitos, Botanical Institute, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Professor Dr. E. Pogan, Institute of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, University
of Krakow, Jan 20, Krakow, Poland.

Professor J. R. Reeder, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming,
Laramie, Wyoming 82070.

Professor Dr. Maria Skalińska, Institute of Plant Anatomy and Cytology,
University of Krakow, Jan 20, Krakow, Poland.

Professor A. P. Sokolovskaya, Botanical Laboratory, University of Leningrad,
Leningrad b-164, USSR.

Professor Dr. I. T. Tarnavscchi, University Botanical Garden, Bucuresti 15,
Romania.

Professor B. L. Turner, Department of Botany, University of Texas, Austin,
Texas 78712.

Professor T. G. Tutin, Department of Botany, University, Leicester, England.

Professor Dr. A. Vaarama, Department of Botany, University of Turku,
Turku, Finland.

Professor Dr. H. D. Wulff, Botanical Institute, University of the Saarland,
Saarbrücken, Germany.

Dr. P. G. Zhukova, Laboratory of Cytology, Komarov Botanical Institute,
Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Popov Street 2, Leningrad 22, USSR.