digitisation & working with data
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Digitisation & Working with Data. Adam Crymble Digital Histories Workshp. Data as an Input. Uses brain to simplify, and then analyse , based on some ‘test’. Forms Conclusions. Input selected. Monks were v ery good at Latin. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Digitisation & Working with Data
Adam CrymbleDigital Histories Workshp
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Data as an Input
“Old Book” by Ivan Pik, and “Thinking” by Sebastiaan ter Burg
Uses brain to simplify, and then analyse, based on some
‘test’
Monks werevery good at Latin
FormsConclusions
Input selected
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Data as an Input
“Microbee Computer-In-A-Book”, by Adam Jenkins
Runs inputs throughan algorithm (a ‘test’)
FormsConclusions
Input selected (already been
simplified)
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Data as an Input
“Bananas” by Billy Wilson, and “Thinking” by Sebastiaan ter Burg
Uses brain to simplify, and then analyse, based on
some ‘test’
FormsConclusions
Tasty!
Input selected
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Data as an Input
“Bananas” by Billy Wilson, and “Thinking” by Sebastiaan ter Burg
Uses brain to simplify, and then analyse, based on some
‘test’
Forms Conclusions(in this case, adds structure)
Red Ones
Yellow Ones
Input selected
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Data as an Input
“Bananas” by Billy Wilson, and “Microbee Computer-In-A-Book”, by Adam Jenkins
Runs inputs throughan algorithm (a ‘test’)
Does notCompute!
Input selected (in unsimplified form)
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Digitisation – Preservation and Portability
“Library Microfilm Reader & Printer” by Cushing Memorial Library
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Digitisation – Electronic Text
Tim Hitchcock and Bob Shoemaker with the Old Bailey Online website, 2003.
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Steps of Digitising the Old Bailey Online
1) Find the original records2) Get scans of the originals3) Double-rekey all of the text4) Put it online
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Input to Analysis: a few seconds
Voyant Tools
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But what is lost?
I am WayneRooney
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The Mona Lisa
“La Jaconde”, by Leonardo da Vinci
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The Mona Lisa?
“Mona Lisa”, by Larry Moss
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This is not a pipe.
‘The Treachery of Images’, by René Magritte
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The Back of a Canvas
“The Finely Executed Trompe L’Oeil Painting of the Back of a Canvas” by Russian School.
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Which Light Spectrum?
“The Blue Room” by Pablo Picasso
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Dry Point Gloss (etched with stylus but no ink) – DULFUH?
Photo by Bill Endres
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Or DULFUN?
Photo by Bill Endres
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Reflectance Transformation Imaging
Photo by Bill Endres
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Measuring Stresses on the page
Photo by Bill Endres
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Measuring Stresses on the Page
Photo by Bill Endres
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
http://www.micro.dibe.unige.it/Research/OCR.htm
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Messy Data
Tnis ls whot eigkty percemt accurecy louks
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What is “J. rifh”?
OCR example, via Connectedhistories.org, and Long-S example, US Bill of Rights.
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What is any of this?
OCR example, via Connectedhistories.org
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Vinegar?
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A crown?
Crown of Henry VIII, by Historic Royal Palaces
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‘Beam me up, Scottie’
Star Trek teleporter
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