From @thomassmits posting on bluesky @thomassmits.bsky.social‬:

Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890) (w. Bethany Warner,
@pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social )

https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.284

A 'Flask application enables scholars to use both textual and visual queries to search the 72,000 images' https://github.com/tpsmi/ilnmultimodalsearch

Code for extraction and multimodal AI embeddings: https://github.com/tpsmi/multimodaliln

#newspapers #AI4LAM #CLIP #multimodal

@electricarchaeo Thanks!

🚀 Our latest article - Coloring in the world of others: color use in visual orientalism, 1890–1920 - has been published in Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. With Melvin Wevers, I examine the impact of media on (historical) color sense.

Article #OA 👉 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03895-5

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/versobooks/comrades-verso-needs-your-support-for-radical-publishing?utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&_kx=t1vEZ4taCMf06BSmIpY2TnJ1HUKbexkzwokl9I72BS8.SNgHad

The new journal Computational Humanities Research has a call for papers on the theme Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research. Deadline: Nov 30. #DH #machinelearning www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Expanding the Toolkit: Large L...

🚀 Excited to share that my latest article has been published in Visual Studies. It examines the Archives of the Planet, a collection of 72,000 early 20th-century color photos, using data analysis and multimodal AI. Link (#OA): https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2380859
#DH #DigitalHumanities

We hope that the dataset finds its way to scholars of the nineteenth century and its press. Please get in touch if you are interested in working with our data and multimodal embeddings. In 2025, we will organize online meetings and an in-person workshop about the data and associated methods.

We've extracted multimodal embeddings from these illustrations, enabling search with text and visual prompts. Users can find images of railway accidents by typing 'an illustration of a railway accident'. Plus, these embeddings help us cluster ILN images by categories like 'map' or 'portrait'.

Looking forward to presenting our (soon to be) open-access multimodal dataset containing 140.351 illustrations of the Illustrated London News (and other British nineteenth-century periodicals) at #RSVP2024

#DH #C19 #History

More info 👉 https://tpsmi.github.io/news/announcement_11/

This short video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgNLI-3lJA) explains our research converging 3 x #c19 historical datasets for 'Beyond the Tracks'; available for Open and Early Access with UoL Press on their Manifold book platform: https://read.uolpress.co.uk/read/beyond-the-tracks/section/38e50234-ecbc-46c4-b390-c2f23e77c2ce . In the chapter we explore the spatial patterning related to railway infrastructure in 19th century Britain using a mix of computational methods, with @LivingWithMachines colleagues, Josh Rhodes, Jon Lawrence, Kaspar Beelen and @kmcdono #dh #history

@HxxxKxxx Thanks for sharing!

New research explores optimizing multimodal clustering of 10,000 magic lantern slides.
By @thomassmits
Check out the study here: https://zenodo.org/records/11445566 #research #dataanalysis

and we’re off #dhbenelux2024

This is a short-term contract so we especially encourage applications from candidates who seek to partly use their time to develop a PhD proposal in media history and/or Digital Humanities.

More info on the project: https://tpsmi.github.io/news/announcement_3/

🌟 We're looking for a Junior Researcher in (media) #history
and/or #DH. Our project develops distant viewing methods that will provide new insights into nineteenth-century visual culture.

Please share widely!

📬 Apply here: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/341489/junior-researcher-in-nineteenth-century-media-and-multimodal-artificial-intelligence-ai/

🚨 I'm looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher in #digitalhumanities for my upcoming ERC-funded project on
#multimodality.

This is a fixed-term position for 36 months based at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Please share the announcement widely!

https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-digital-humanities/789956102/

Looking forward to hearing more about (historical) Document Image Analysis from Shannon Shen tomorrow. Drop me a line if you want to join our online meeting: 5 March: 6am PST/ 9am EST / 2pm GMT / 3pm CET

Last chance! 🏃‍♂️ The #DHBenelux2024 #CfP deadline is just hours away. Submit your abstract today before the clock strikes midnight 🕛 Wednesday 7 Feb (23:59 CET)!

https://2024.dhbenelux.org/call-for-papers/

#DigitalHumanities #DH

👀 Psst… The extended #CfP deadline for #DHBenelux2024 is almost here! One more day to send in your submission and have a chance to share your research with our #DH community in Leuven this June (4-7).

🗓️ Deadline: 7 February (23:59 CET)

More details about CFP and submission info on the website:
https://2024.dhbenelux.org/call-for-papers/

#DigitalHumanities

📢❗️Extension #CFP deadline!

Attention #DH enthusiasts, the deadline to submit an abstract for #DHBenelux2024 has been extended. You have an additional week to send in your contribution.

📝🗓️ Extended deadline: 7 Febuary (23:59 CET).

Call for Papers👇

https://2024.dhbenelux.org/call-for-papers/

#DigitalHumanities