Museikon, from physical to virtual reality: a continuous challenge, Tuesday, February 21, 4:00PM – 5:30PM GMT / 8:00AM – 9:30AM PST, Online via Zoom After securing an EEA Grant, Museikon was required to make their entire collection of icons and ancient books available to the public, which they accomplished by digitizing and displaying the approximately…
Geographical Information Systems, Thursday, February 9, 4:00PM – 5:30PM GMT / 8:00AM – 9:30AM PST, Online via YouTube This session introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and illustrates how it can be used to explore spatial patterns in cultural heritage datasets. We begin with an overview of the basic building blocks of GIS, including raster and…
An online search away from any computer are eye-level views of many of the world’s cities. This technology is powerful – allowing people to have an in-depth look at the cities they might one day visit, live in, or work in. It’s a useful tool for understanding buildings on a more comprehensive level than photographs.…
Article by Benjamin Sutton (The Art Newspaper, published 4 January 2022) Art historians may have a new tool for settling the attribution of disputed paintings using artificial intelligence (AI) thanks to research by a cross-disciplinary team led by physicists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The research, published in November in the journal Heritage…
Earlier this year, LC Labs worked with three research fellows in digital history, digital art history, and software librarianship on individual computational research projects. Computational research applies computing processes like algorithms to traditional research topics, such as the study of history. For example, digital history researchers often use computational methods to uncover relationships between historic materials,…
Just launched: The web interface “Vasari Diagram” – an open access tool for data visualization, designed to make accessible and easy to study the networks and semantic connections of old masters in Wikipedia. Painters are not only present in Wikipedia by their own pages but also by numerous other pages, referring to them. Who mentions…