Matching Metadata & Text for the Enriching Exhibition Scholarship Project
Matching Metadata & Text for the Enriching Exhibition Scholarship Project
Overview
Join us as the Enriching Exhibition Scholarship team share their ongoing work with linked exhibitions data and open the floor for feedback and discussion. The project team will provide an overview of the project, how they have been using the project data so far, and what they have learned in the process.
The Enriching Exhibition Scholarship Project involves partners from the Universities of Edinburgh, Yale, Oxford, and the Ashmolean Museum and is funded by the AHRC/NEH. The work in enriching linked data records with information from museum exhibitions, mapping connections between art and museum objects across the world, creating information that will make arts knowledge more accessible and shareable for artists, scholars, and the public. This project uses advanced computational techniques, such as text mining and machine learning, to capture all sorts of exhibition data and allow museums to make it easily accessible and shareable to scholars and the public.
About the Speakers
Dr. Tyler Bonnet is a Research Fellow at the Neuropolitics Research Lab of the University of Edinburgh working on the Enriching Exhibition Scholarship project. Prior to his arrival in Edinburgh in November 2022, Tyler received a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from Queen Mary University of London.
Dr. Clare Llewellyn (PI, Edinburgh) is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and member of the cross-college Language and Technology Group in Edinburgh. Clare works with a variety of rich text formats including archival metadata records, OCR text, newspaper content, and multiple social media derived datasets to extract meaning and analyze trends both across locations and time.
Dr. Kevin Page (Co-I, Oxford e-Research Centre) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University where he studies cultural and societal informatics through interdisciplinary collaborations in the digital humanities. His work on the semantic annotation and distribution of data using web architectures has, through participation in numerous UK, EU, and international projects, been applied across a wide variety of domains including sensor networks, music information retrieval, scholarly texts, clinical healthcare, and remote collaboration for space exploration.
Event Details
Time:
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST
Location:
Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory
Sterling Memorial Library
120 High Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Registration
This event is open to all, though registration is required. To register, visit the Eventbrite page for the talk.
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