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Digitisation & Working with Data

Adam CrymbleDigital Histories Workshp

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Data as an Input

“Old Book” by Ivan Pik, and “Thinking” by Sebastiaan ter Burg

Uses brain to simplify, and then analyse, based on some

‘test’

Monks werevery good at Latin

FormsConclusions

Input selected

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Data as an Input

“Microbee Computer-In-A-Book”, by Adam Jenkins

Runs inputs throughan algorithm (a ‘test’)

FormsConclusions

Input selected (already been

simplified)

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Data as an Input

“Bananas” by Billy Wilson, and “Thinking” by Sebastiaan ter Burg

Uses brain to simplify, and then analyse, based on

some ‘test’

FormsConclusions

Tasty!

Input selected

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Data as an Input

“Bananas” by Billy Wilson, and “Thinking” by Sebastiaan ter Burg

Uses brain to simplify, and then analyse, based on some

‘test’

Forms Conclusions(in this case, adds structure)

Red Ones

Yellow Ones

Input selected

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Data as an Input

“Bananas” by Billy Wilson, and “Microbee Computer-In-A-Book”, by Adam Jenkins

Runs inputs throughan algorithm (a ‘test’)

Does notCompute!

Input selected (in unsimplified form)

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Digitisation – Preservation and Portability

“Library Microfilm Reader & Printer” by Cushing Memorial Library

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Digitisation – Electronic Text

Tim Hitchcock and Bob Shoemaker with the Old Bailey Online website, 2003.

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Steps of Digitising the Old Bailey Online

1) Find the original records2) Get scans of the originals3) Double-rekey all of the text4) Put it online

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Input to Analysis: a few seconds

Voyant Tools

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But what is lost?

I am WayneRooney

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The Mona Lisa

“La Jaconde”, by Leonardo da Vinci

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The Mona Lisa?

“Mona Lisa”, by Larry Moss

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This is not a pipe.

‘The Treachery of Images’, by René Magritte

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The Back of a Canvas

“The Finely Executed Trompe L’Oeil Painting of the Back of a Canvas” by Russian School.

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Which Light Spectrum?

“The Blue Room” by Pablo Picasso

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Dry Point Gloss (etched with stylus but no ink) – DULFUH?

Photo by Bill Endres

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Or DULFUN?

Photo by Bill Endres

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Reflectance Transformation Imaging

Photo by Bill Endres

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Measuring Stresses on the page

Photo by Bill Endres

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Measuring Stresses on the Page

Photo by Bill Endres

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

http://www.micro.dibe.unige.it/Research/OCR.htm

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Messy Data

Tnis ls whot eigkty percemt accurecy louks

lilce

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What is “J. rifh”?

OCR example, via Connectedhistories.org, and Long-S example, US Bill of Rights.

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What is any of this?

OCR example, via Connectedhistories.org

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Vinegar?

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A crown?

Crown of Henry VIII, by Historic Royal Palaces

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‘Beam me up, Scottie’

Star Trek teleporter

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