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Computer Vision for Digital Heritage SIG
December 18, 2020 | Written by Katherine McDonough
New Special Interest Group at The Alan Turing Institute We’re very pleased to announce that four Living with...
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Catching up with maps
December 16, 2020 | Written by Katherine McDonough
The basics Living with Machines uses scanned maps of Great Britain from the long nineteenth century for a suite of...
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Using GitHub Actions and Jupyter Notebooks to track Living With Machines GitHub traffic
December 15, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien
Funded research projects usually need to show they are spending money effectively and are having an impact on people....
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From prams to Parliament – what was a machine? Help us find out
December 4, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge
Help us teach computers to understand 'machines' from the perspective of people living through the Industrial...
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Heatmap for polygons: visualise overlaps in a large polygon dataset
December 2, 2020 | Written by Olivia Vane
The problem You are working with a dataset of 48,000 polygons representing map sheets created by the Ordnance Survey...
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Historical Hypothesis Generation (‘HypGen’)
November 26, 2020 | Written by Daniel Wilson
Historians usually come up with a question they want to answer by themselves, so how can a multi-disciplinary team of...
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What is a ‘machine’ anyway? Help us describe them
October 27, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge
Help us describe machines: contribute to our lists of ‘machine’ words on Zooniverse. Our first...
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Using hack days to explore maps at scale: two examples
September 18, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien
This is part two of a two-part blog post. You can find part one in this previous post. This blog post is accompanied by...
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Using hack days to explore maps at scale
September 18, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien
This two part blog post is accompanied by a set of map hack day example notebooks on GitHub. When Living with Machines...
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First crowdsourced datasets available
September 10, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge
Thanks to all the online volunteers who contributed to our first crowdsourcing tasks, we’ve got two results...
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Press Picker: visualising formats and title name changes in the British Library’s newspaper holdings
August 5, 2020 | Written by Olivia Vane
Press Picker visualisation One of the challenges in Living with Machines is making sense of collection metadata at...
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Introducing… Federico Nanni
July 3, 2020 | Written by Federico Nanni
What’s your name? Federico Nanni What’s your background? Up until 2013, I was a traditionally-trained historian...
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Finding your way… among newspapers
June 16, 2020 | Written by Giorgia Tolfo
Digitisation can be a lengthy process extending beyond the steps, funding, resources and agreements that are required...
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Introducing… Sarah Gibson
May 29, 2020 | Written by Sarah Gibson
What’s your name? Sarah Gibson What’s your background? I hold a PhD in Astrophysics which is where I first...
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Highlighting Authors’ Contributions and Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Living with Machines
May 26, 2020 | Written by Federico Nanni
We have recently uploaded a new paper to arXiv, an open-access repository of academic preprints. In that article, we...
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Running a remote workshop via a Zoom video call: some quick lessons learnt
May 7, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge
Some lessons learnt from running an interactive mini-workshop with breakout rooms in Zoom
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How to participate in an online conference, or being in Lausanne while being in your dining room
April 28, 2020 | Written by Giorgia Tolfo
We are living in unprecedented times. Due to the COVID-19 emergency many of us had to rethink the way we work, the way...
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Living with Machines at the Leeds Digital Festival
April 27, 2020 | Written by Mia Ridge
Dr. Mia Ridge gave a presentation, ‘Rethink Research, Illuminate History’ at the Leeds Digital Festival on...
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Newspaper copyright and Living with Machines
March 19, 2020 | Written by Claire Austin
In my role as Rights Assurance Manager for Living with Machines, it’s my job to ensure that the project has...
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The impact of OCR on downstream Natural Language Processing tasks (tl;dr)
March 6, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien
In this blog post, we give a summary of a recent paper written by project members on the impact of OCR quality. The...
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