Research Flow Chart

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1. Source archives around the world take original paper documents and digitise them, turning them into digital images of the original documents.
2. Muninn WWI collects very large numbers of these images, shipping them to the SHARCNET computer array in Waterloo, Ontario.
3. The Sharcnet computer turns the images into electronic files through a process of data extraction. This digital information then get organised into a database (DB).
4. The database computers recognise patterns in the data which get sent back to the Sharcnet computer to improve the accuracy of the data extraction process.
5. At the same time, our team of advisers look at the databases and make suggestions which improve both the organisation of information in the databases and the data extraction process in Sharcnet.
6. When the data in the databases is good enough, it gets shipped to Muninn's research projects, as well as to academic researchers all around the world.
7. Meanwhile, the techniques we develop while extracting and organising our data are made available to other researchers interested in the same kinds of problems.