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Feb
8
6:15 PM18:15

Vortrag: Digitalisierung, Automatisierung und KI. Die Position der Data Science in den Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften

Die rasanten Fortschritte in den Bereichen der Digitalisierung, Automatisierung und Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) haben die Forschungslandschaft der Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften grundlegend verändert. Dieser Vortrag beleuchtet die zunehmende Bedeutung der Data Science in diesem Kontext und ihre Position als zentrale Schnittstelle zwischen traditionellen geisteswissenschaftlichen Ansätzen und modernen Technologien.
Der Vortrag erkundet die vielfältigen Chancen der Datennutzung zur Analyse und Interpretation kultureller Phänomene. Der Fokus liegt auf der Veränderung der Rolle der Geisteswissenschaften in der digitalen Ära.

Die Digitalisierung ermöglicht nicht nur den Zugang zu einer Fülle von Forschungsmaterialien, sondern erfordert auch ein neues Selbstverständnis des Faches. Die Automatisierung von Prozessen und der Einsatz von KI-Technologien bieten das Potenzial, Forschungszeiten zu verkürzen und neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Dabei müssen jedoch auch ethische Fragen und methodische Grenzen berücksichtigt werden.
Schließlich werden die Auswirkungen der aktuellen technologischen Entwicklungen auf die Geisteswissenschaften untersucht, einschließlich des Einflusses von Smartphone-Technologie und dem Internet auf die Datengenerierung. Dieser Vortrag lädt dazu ein, die sich wandelnde Landschaft der Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften zu erkunden und die Position der Data Science als treibende Kraft für Innovation und Erkenntnisgewinn in diesem Bereich zu betrachten.

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Nov
17
2:00 PM14:00

Does Data Science Enrich Art History?

The Artl@s Lectures for the 2023-2024 academic year focus on "Narrowing the Divide: A Dialogue between Art History and Digital Art History." Digital Art History is emerging as a distinct discipline but faces challenges in generating meaningful insights due to a gap between computational methods and traditional analysis. Art historians often lack technical skills in the digital realm. To bridge this gap, the series aims to foster collaboration between Digital Art History specialists and traditional art historians, encouraging dialogue and understanding of computational methods in art history research.

I sincerely thank Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel and Nicola Carboni for allowing me, together with Clarisse Bardiot, to be part of this exciting lecture series.

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Smart Museum. Cultural Heritage in the Virtual Space
Nov
11
10:00 AM10:00

Smart Museum. Cultural Heritage in the Virtual Space

Smart Museum, Harald Klinke

I will be giving a Lightning Talk at the Museums Computer Group’s Museums+Tech 2022 Conference.

When museums were closed during the lock-down, they struggled to connect with their audiences, to display items from their collections and stimulate a societal discourse about culture. The reason for this is often the lack of a front-end for the virtual space besides the website. This lightning talk shows how to build a foundation that enables access to open data, a multi-front-end strategy, and real-time feedback from users.

The physical museum space is viewed as a front end to the public. The talk shows how to present the museum where the audience is as well: in the virtual space. Based on practical experience in the museums of the city of Dresden, this lecture shows how objects already in a database can be made accessible online as structured data via a defined interface (RestAPI) in a machine-readable format, how to build an infrastructure that meets both internal and external needs and to generate synergies through cooperation with natural partners. Based on this interface, various ways of exploratory access to the collection can be developed, such as accessing it via websites, apps, digital signage, citizen kiosks, etc. In addition, the data is used for hackathons and data harvesting processes such as the Europeana. The museum’s micro-service thus becomes an integral part of an open data strategy of the organisation such as a municipality. In this way, the diverse cultural heritage of the museums is made accessible to a larger public and brought into new, virtual contexts.

I have published the content of this talk on medium.com

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Mar
29
6:00 PM18:00

From data to knowledge. Infrastructures for understanding culture

At the Princeton Art and Archaeology Graduate Conference I will be giving a talk entitled “From data to knowledge. Infrastructures for understanding culture”.

“Everything about science is changing because of the impact of information technology", asserted Jim Gray. Data also forms the basis of the digital transformation in the arts and humanities. Digital Art History is an interdisciplinary field that uses statistics, data analysis, machine learning and domain knowledge to understand and analyze actual phenomena in the history of art. This talk examines the term “data” and how “digital” will change the way we think about the subject of art history. It will show examples of data infrastructures, how they can be used for research projects and how to jump start your own data-driven investigation.

I thank Mengge Cao for the kind invitation to the 2022 Princeton Art and Archaeology Graduate Conference.

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Oct
1
10:00 AM10:00

Digitising, Sharing, Cataloguing and Searching the Medieval and Early-Modern Image

  • Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
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This one-day workshop will bring together people currently involved in such projects, to discuss the objectives and the technical features of the different platforms, data gathering strategies, methodologies adopted for the iconographic and figurative description and future developments, with a specific focus on the main challenges encountered by each project, possible links, and interoperability.

The title of my presentation will be “On the use of distant viewing in art history. Feature extraction, dimension reduction and the grammar of images.

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