Mark your calendar: “Identifiable Individuals and Reality: What Do We Describe and Why” Dr. Martin Doerr, from Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) A talk from the Center for Spatial Studies Fall 2020 series, Knowledge Representation and GeoHumanities Tuesday, September 17 | 11:00 am The virtual talk will argue “that only a smaller…
Check out Polygrid, a developing image search & discovery engine powered by deep learning and PowerDP. Try out a demo via the Rijksmuseum, who has put over 400,000 of their works as hi-res images in the public domain; Polygrid has captured more than 200,000 of them from the Dutch Rijksmuseum Open Data Collection and arranged…
Call for Papers College Art Association (CAA) Conference, February 10–13, 2021: “Digital Art History and the Future of the Article” Deadline for submissions: September 16, 2020 This session, sponsored by the Digital Art History Society (DAHS), will critically examine the digital art history article by considering current trends and best practices in digitally-born, online journals.…
Art History in Quarantine: Digital Transformations, Digital Futures Original Conference Date: April 10, 2020 From DAHJ: In the age of shelter-in-place, digital literacy is no longer optional. In just a few weeks, we have seen an unprecedented infrastructural shift to video conferencing, online pedagogy, and project management software. What presents itself as a challenge to…
Digital collections in libraries are vast—and growing, as the Library of Congress continues to digitize cultural heritage materials and acquire new born digital collections. At the same time, the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence has grown exponentially. Those at LC Labs explore how technology can help fulfill the Library of Congress’s vision that…
UCSB Library’s Research Data Services (RDS) recently became a member of the Data Curation Network (DCN), a group of professionals from U.S. academic institutions and nonprofit data repositories who seek to improve researcher support through their collective expertise around data curation services. UCSB is now one of 12 DCN partner institutions in the network. Members…