The Gaelic Handwriting Recognition Project is converting 500k words of traditional narrative documents to digital text and training the first automatic handwriting recogniser for the Gaelic language, using the Transkribus platform.
The Gaelic Handwriting Recognition Project is converting 500k words of traditional narrative documents to digital text and training the first automatic handwriting recogniser for the Gaelic language, using the Transkribus platform.
Curious Edinburgh is a website and mobile phone app which tells stories behind the city’s many historic buildings and places.
Dr Niamh Moore is part of the Reanimating Data project team, working with a set of interviews with young women created in the wake of the aids crisis as part of a social research study conducted in 1988-90: the Women, Risk & AIDS project.
Living Histories of Sugar invites audiences across the Atlantic to be immersed in the sights and sounds of historical characters: from sugar barons and refinery owners, to enslaved and ‘free’ people, sugar refinery workers and their wives. This performance encourages Caribbean and Scottish audiences to contest, re-signify or otherwise rework the historical record.
The work in enriching linked data records with information from museum exhibitions, mapping connections between art and museum objects across the world, creating information that will make arts knowledge more accessible and shareable for artists, scholars, and the public.
Digital Livelihoods studies online work, digital economies, and digital skills training among refugees living in cities.
The Covid-19 Response Governance Mapping project kept track of the measures related to data protection, a key area of Covid governance, and documented the legal and political frameworks in which these measures took place. One of its main outputs is a dataset.
The film, an output of practice-based research, invites the audience to consider past, present and future of a changing landscape and vanishing biodiversity.
Becoming Animal proposes a different kind of nature film: shot in the Gran Teton Park in Wyoming, USA, it examines our shifting relationship to what we call “nature”.
SOCIAM sets out to explore how existing and emerging social media, along with crowdsourcing platforms like Zooniverse, are changing the relationship between people and computers.
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