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Improving Search and Access to Visual Collections via IIIF and AI-Powered Semantic Search
During the summer of 2024, the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research Excellence Group in collaboration with the Design Archives, The National Archives and the Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture network service at the University of Brighton hosted two research placements. Isis Barrett-Lally, PhD student at the Royal Holloway University of London, and Alfie…
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Workshop: Capturing Heritage Craft in 2.5D and 3D
Thursday 20th 09:30am – 6:00pm, Friday 21st 9:30am – 4:30pm University of Brighton The AHRC-funded Digital Skills In Visual And Material Culture network service will host a two-day workshop as part of its training activities on 20-21 June 2024, at the University of Brighton. The workshop aims to upskill researchers and practitioners in 3D digitisation…
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Internship: Artificial Intelligence (AI) for analysing Covid-related Mass Observation Data – Closed
Applications are invited for a student/researcher to undertake an internship, supported by a stipend, to develop their skills for facilitating access and analysis of large-scale Covid-related mass observation data. The internship seeks to develop skills in AI-based methods to enhance access and analysis of textual material collected by Mass Observation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Context This internship will…
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Workshop: Advanced 3D Digital Documentation of Material Culture
Monday 5th 09:30 am – 6:00 pm, Tuesday 6th 9:30 am – 4:30 pm, Wednesday 7th 9:30 am – 3:00 pm Advanced Engineering Centre, 101, University of Brighton The AHRC-funded Digital Skills In Visual And Material Culture network service will host a two-and-a-half-day workshop as part of its training activities on 5-7 February 2024, at…
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Webinar: Publishing & Re-use of Cultural Heritage 3D for Narrative Purposes | January 24, 1:00-2:00pm
Mr Thomas Flynn, Digital Heritage Consultant, The Spatial Heritage Review This webinar will explore how 3D data representing cultural heritage resources -whether these are movable or immovable assets- can be published and used online for narrative purposes in the Arts and Humanities context. During the webinar we will discuss the concept of storytelling with 3D,…
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Workshop: Getting Started in Python for Humanists (beginner level)
February 14, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on February 14, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. This one-day Python workshop is designed for researchers who have no prior experience with Python to provide a practical and efficient introduction…
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Workshop: Introduction to Sentiment Analysis using Python (intermediate level)
March 13, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on March 13th, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. This workshop is designed for individuals who are interested in learning about sentiment analysis and its applications. Sentiment analysis is the study of…
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Workshop: Topic Modeling Text with Python (intermediate level)
March 20, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on March 20th, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. This workshop is designed for researchers who are interested in learning about Topic Modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Topic modeling involves uncovering…
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Workshop: Web Scraping Using NVivo (intermediate level)
January 24th, 2024, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on January 24th, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. This workshop is designed for researchers who want to reinforce their skills in using NVivo for qualitative data analysis.…
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Workshop: Introduction to Pandas for Data Manipulation (intermediate level)
February 28, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on February 28th, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. This workshop is designed for individuals who either have some prior experience with Python or wish to strengthen their Python skills, specifically focusing…
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Workshop: Introduction to Named Entity Recognition with Python (intermediate level)
February 21, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on February 21st, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. This Python workshop on Named Entity Recognition (NER) is designed for individuals who are new to NER or those who want to…
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Workshop: Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis Using NVivo (beginner level)
January 17, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on January 17, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. This workshop is designed for researchers who are new to NVivo or those who want to reinforce their skills in using the software.…
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Webinar: Handwritten text extraction with Transkribus Lite (beginner level)
February 7, 2024, 2:00-3:00 PM Online The AHRC-funded Hot Source! project is organising an online webinar as part of its training activities on the 7th of February 2024, from 2:00 – 3:00 pm. This webinar is an introduction to Transkribus Lite, an app designed for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), making historical documents more readable and…
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Workshop: Capturing objects in 2.5D with RTI (intermediate level)
February 21, 2024, 2:00-3:00 PM Online The AHRC-funded Hot Source! project is organising an online workshop as part of its training activities on the 21st of February 2024, from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm. Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is an imaging technique used in the field of Digital Humanities to capture and analyse the surface…
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Webinar: Extraction of printed text with ABBYY FineReader (beginner level)
January 10, 2024, 2:00-3:00 PM Online The AHRC-funded Hot Source! project is organising an online webinar as part of its training activities on the 10th of January 2024, from 2:00 – 3:00 pm. This webinar is an introduction to ABBYY FineReader, software that allows the conversion of images of text documents and tables into editable,…
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Workshop: Refining and sharing 3D Models of objects (intermediate level)
March 20, 2024, 2:00-3:00 PM Online The AHRC-funded Hot Source! project is organising an online workshop as part of its training activities on the 20th of March 2024, from 2:00 – 3:00 pm. This workshop will focus on refining 3D models, created with the method of photogrammetry, and prepare them for online sharing or additive…
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Workshop: Introduction to digital photography and digitisation (beginner level)
January 24, 2024, 2:00-3:00 PM Online The AHRC-funded Hot Source! project is organising an online workshop as part of its training activities on the 24th of January 2024, from 2:00 – 3:00 pm. This workshop is designed for researchers who are new to digital photography and digitisation or those who want to reinforce their basic…
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Workshop: 3D Capturing of objects with Photogrammetry (intermediate level)
March 6 & 13, 2024, 2:00-3:00 PM Online The AHRC-funded Hot Source! project is organising a two-day online workshop as part of its training activities on the 6th and 13th of March 2024, from 2:00 – 3:00 pm. Photogrammetry is a technique of creating accurate 3D measurements and spatial information about objects through photography. The…
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Webinar: Towards a Diverse REF Culture: Digital Datasets and Tools as Contribution to Knowledge | November 22, 12:00-1:00pm
Dr Arianna Ciula, Director and Senior Analyst, King’s Digital Lab, King’s College London Professor Jane Winters, Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London This webinar will discuss efforts towards recognising digital outputs, including datasets and software tools, within UK research excellence evaluation frameworks, such as the REF. By…
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Report on Internship “Evaluation, management and deployment of images for the creative sector”
By Ilenia Atzori, Karina Rodriguez During the Summer of 2023, the Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture at the University of Brighton, in collaboration with Judges Ltd, a company in Hastings with an archive of postcards and photographs encompassing more than 100 years of history, hosted an internship to develop the creative and digital…
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Workshop: Accessing and Interacting with Multidimensional Media
November 6-7, 2023, 09:30am – 4:30pm Advanced Engineering Centre, 101, University of Brighton The AHRC-funded Digital Skills In Visual And Material Culture network service will host a two-day workshop as part of its training activities on 6 and 7 November 2023, 09:30 am – 4:30 pm at the University of Brighton. The workshop aims to…
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Webinar: Artificial Intelligence Applications for Visual Archives | September 20, 11:00am-12:00pm
Dr. Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Reader and Director of Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems Jen Grasso, Digital Content Systems Co-Ordinator at the University of Brighton Design Archives, University of Brighton During the summer of 2023, the Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems in collaboration with the Design Archives and the Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture network…
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Workshop: Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture
June 12, 2023, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Woburn House, Conference Centre, London The AHRC-funded Digital Skills In Visual And Material Culture network service will host a one-day event at the Woburn House Conference Centre in London on 12 June 2023, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. The Digital Skills In Visual And Material Culture network…
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Webinar: Digital Fabrication to Improve Visual Collections’ Access| October 31 2023, 12:00-1:00pm
Dr. Myrsini Samaroudi, Research Fellow, University of Brighton Mr Anthony Kalume (BeKuto waSirya), dip.PGCert., M.A. For more than two decades the heritage and research community have been witnessing the development of 3D technologies to facilitate various cultural heritage management processes within GLAMs and HEIs. Such technologies include digital fabrication and particularly low-cost and accessible 3D…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Methods for Improving Access to Large-Scale Images
AI-based object identification with YOLO model for the image with negative number 1755-O (©CoID) Design Council Archive, University of Brighton Design Archives
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Internship: Multidimensional data for the study of energy efficiency of heritage buildings – Closed
Applications are invited for an Arts, Design, Architecture or Humanities researcher to undertake an internship, supported by a stipend, to develop their digital skills for the sustainable management of heritage buildings. The internship seeks to develop skills in reviewing, processing and improving the quality of existing digital data, interacting with digital data and creating value…
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Internship: Evaluation, management and deployment of images for the creative sector – Closed
Applications are invited for an Arts, Design or Humanities researcher to undertake an internship, supported by a stipend, to develop their digital and creative skills. The internship seeks to develop skills in managing visual archival data and proposing creative deployment of images for commercial use. Context The internship will include evaluating the content of the…
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Internship: Sourcing, Describing and Storing Images for Research – Closed
The internship seeks to develop skills in managing digital images within a research project to interrogate the recent turn to ‘visible storage’ in museums and archives by interrogates the recent turn to ‘visible storage’ in museums and archives by asking 1) how practitioners, artists, and community groups have responded to collections stores, historically and more…
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Webinar: Introduction to Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture | March 24, 10:00-11:00am
The University of Brighton was recently awarded a large grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the Embed digital skills in arts and humanities research scheme (£395K). Led by PI Dr Karina Rodriguez Echavarria (Director of the Research Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems, UoB) and Co-I Dr Claire Wintle (Co-Director…
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CPD Certification
We are pleased to announce we got our CPD membership which will allow us to offer CPD-certified courses. CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development and is the term used to describe the learning activities that professionals and researchers could engage in to develop and enhance their abilities. CPD is a holistic approach towards enhancing digital…
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