Essays about: "Digital humanities"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 48 essays containing the words Digital humanities.

  1. 26. Automatic Handwritten Text Detection and Classification

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för visuell information och interaktion

    Author : Olle Dahlstedt; [2021]
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    Abstract : As more and more organizations digitize their records, the need for automatic document processing software increases. In particular, the rise of ‘digital humanities’ precede a new set of problems on how to digitize historical archival material in an efficient and accurate manner. READ MORE

  3. 27. Cars in Sweden's Cinema & Television : AI-Guided Research of Automobiles in Sweden’s Images from 1950-1980

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Maximilian Steck; [2021]
    Keywords : archive; AI; cars; cultural memory; digital humanities; film; New Cinema History; object detection; speech recognition; Swedish film; oil crisis; H-Day; Archiv; Künstliche Intelligenz; KI; Filmwissenschaft; Medienwissenschaft; Film; Schweden; Schwedischer Film; Auto; Repräsentation; Wilde Erdbeeren; arkiv; artificiell intelligens; svensk film; bil; minne; representation; oljekris; dagen H; Smultronstället; 映画学; スウェデン; スウェデンの映画; AI; 車; 歴史; オイルショック; 野いちご; ダゲン・H;

    Abstract : This research project centers around cinematic and societal representation of the automobile in post-war Swedish cinema and television. Due to political neutrality during World War II, Sweden’s economy benefited from an extensive surplus immediately after Germany’s capitulation in 1945. READ MORE

  4. 28. #sustainabletransport : A FAIR Cross-Platform Social Media Analysis Approach to Sociotechnical Sustainable Transport Research

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Michael Stiebe; [2021]
    Keywords : Digital Humanities; Cross-Platform Analysis; Instagram; Twitter; Social Big Data; Sustainable Mobility; Sustainable Transport; Sociotechnical Transitions;

    Abstract : The paper reports findings from a FAIR principles-based research project dedicated to investigating how cross-field research between the DH and Sociotechnical Sustainable Transport Research could help to enhance the holistic understanding of sociotechnical low-carbon transport transitions.  Using the hashtag search queries #sustainabletransport and #sustainablemobility, 33,121 Tweets (2013-2021) and 8,089 Instagram images including captions (2017/2018-2021) were mined using Python scripts. READ MORE

  5. 29. Alpinism as a Form of Intangible Cultural Heritage from the Perspective of Interactive Methods in Digital Humanities

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Klaus-Georg Deck; [2021]
    Keywords : alpinism; cultural heritage; digital humanities; interactive methods; augmented reality; virtual reality;

    Abstract : In 2019, alpinism was inscribed in the UNESCO representative list of the intangi­ble cultural heritage of humanity. This thesis shows that alpinism as intangible cultural heritage can be made experienceable for everyone by means of interactive technologies of digital humanities. READ MORE

  6. 30. From Text to Space and Vice Versa : The Travel Accounts of Sir William Gell and Edward Dodwell in Phocis and Boeotia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Zafeirios Avgeris; [2021]
    Keywords : Digital Humanities; Spatial Humanities; Grand Tour; British Travel Literature; Sir William Gell; Edward Dodwell.;

    Abstract : This thesis examines and compares two travel accounts in the regions of Phocis and Boeotia in Greece, as they appear in the book of Sir William Gell “The Itinerary of Greece: With a Commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an Account of the Monuments of Antiquity at Present Existing in that Country (1819) and on the two volumed book of Edward Dodwell A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece: During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806, Volume 1 & 11 (1819). More specifically, the thesis explores the extent of the area that these travelers managed to cover during their routes, the places with historical and archaeological interest that they mentioned at least, their moves among the various chronotopes, and the use of their predecessors’ texts for on their routes. READ MORE