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Animation: ‘Leeds over time: as seen through a data science lens’

January 29, 2023 | Written by Mia Ridge

Kalle Westerling and Mia Ridge produced this for the Living with Machines exhibition, held in Leeds City Museum from...

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Echoing Through Time: New Tunes for Old Words

October 28, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

When I began research for ‘Living with Machines: human stories from the industrial age’, a free exhibition...

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The role of AI in creative and cultural industries

September 16, 2022 | Written by Maja Maricevic

Maja Maricevic, Project Co-Investigator and Head of Higher Education and Science at the British Library provides some...

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Help fill gaps in Wikipedia: our Leeds editathon

September 8, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

Exhibition co-curator Mia Ridge explains how you can help improve Wikipedia’s coverage of local lives and topics...

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These are a few of my favourite things… in the Living with Machines exhibition

August 17, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

The free Living with Machines exhibition is open now until January 2023 at Leeds City Museum. It was co-curated by our...

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Humanity and technology: In conversation with Jo Guldi

July 8, 2022 | Written by Jo Guldi

Living with Machines organised two events with Professor Jo Guldi on 8th July 2022. During these lectures, we obtained...

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DH Benelux 2022 long paper: Historic machines from ‘prams’ to ‘Parliament’: new avenues for collaborative linguistic research

May 26, 2022 | Written by Mia Ridge

How can a simple research question like 'what was a machine?' provide an opportunity to engage the public with our work...

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Can we use machine learning to classify whether a book is ‘fiction’ or ‘non-fiction’ from its title?

January 24, 2022 | Written by Daniel van Strien

summary: we built a book genre classification model using training data created by British Library staff; the model...

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Sharing our first Delivery Plan

December 8, 2021 | Written by Mia Ridge

We're sharing our 2019 Delivery Plan as part of our commitment to transparency and sharing work in progress. This plan...

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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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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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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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Living with Machines at Digital Humanities 2019

June 28, 2019 | Written by Mia Ridge

We are honoured to have had two panel proposals accepted for the Digital Humanities 2019 (DH2019) conference in Utrecht...

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