Interested in how #digital tools can be used to create new collections-based histories? #CongruenceEngine research fellow Daniel Wilson is using trade directories and machine learning to unlock radical historical contexts. Read more about his work here: ceblog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/2023/02/06/dir…

ift.tt/wi2lF4M It's been on preview for a while, but delighted to share our officially published 'Environmental Scan' article (with page numbers!) in DSH on 'Bias and Representativeness in Digitised Newspaper Collections', led by Kaspar Beelen… academic.oup.com/dsh/article/38…

New blogpost! 'Directory Enquiries Part 2' livingwithmachines.ac.uk/directory-enqu… by Daniel 🤖💀 Wilson @dan9000.bluesky.social reporting on a workshop The Alan Turing Institute on machine-learning approaches to parsing difficult historical documents such as 19th-century Trade Directories... 1/2 #dh #computervision #twitterstorians

...2/2: Daniel 🤖💀 Wilson @dan9000.bluesky.social reflects on experiments with computer vision and the value of in-person collaboration for multi-disciplinary challenges such as document layout. Thanks Arts and Humanities Research Council @smgresearch @wjbfarrell @historianjon Jon Agar Katie McDonough Daniel van Strien federico nanni Anna-Maria Sichani

The project may be winding down, but we have fresh research for you. New blogpost by Daniel 🤖💀 Wilson @dan9000.bluesky.social about a long research article: 'The Living Machine', published this week in history journal Technology & Culture. More details to follow... #history #histtech livingwithmachines.ac.uk/stop-press-the…

Stop Press! 🧵The Living Machine! 🤖 New OA Article in Technology & Culture (muse.jhu.edu/article/903976) by Daniel 🤖💀 Wilson @dan9000.bluesky.social et al., using a language model to explore 19th century texts #history #dh The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) The Alan Turing Institute Arts and Humanities Research Council @blpressoffice 1/n...

Big news! MapReader has won the 2023 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History, awarded by American Historical Association & RRCHNM. Thank you to the committee for recognizing our work. historians.org/awards-and-gra… Congrats to all involved!! Arts and Humanities Research Council British Library The Alan Turing Institute

Have you read Technology and Culture's July issue? It had a excellent assortment of articles! Stay tuned over the coming days for a review of all the great pieces that were published. #histtech #histSTM

In ‘The Living Machine: Computational Approaches to the 19th Century Language of Technology’ Daniel 🤖💀 Wilson @dan9000.bluesky.social et al., use language models to explore how the changing human-machine relation was depicted in Victorian Britain. Read the full article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

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