mastodon 4.7.3Historians, data science and library folk rethinking the impact of 19thC machines on ordinary lives.
A collaboration between the British Library and The Alan Turing Institute, funded by the AHRC and UKRI
Our MapReader software library for working with historical maps has won a prize! It's an honour to have this collaborative work recognized by the AHA (@AHAHistorians@historians.social)
See our documentation: https://living-with-machines.github.io/MapReader/
Hats off to @kmcdono@mastodonapp.uk @danielwilson@masto.ai and all the @LivingWithMachines@zirk.us team!
Project PI @RuthAhnert.bsky.social :
Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research Practices'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025
Curious about the Living with Machines project? Got a few moments to watch some videos? The project has put together case studies on ten different aspects of our work.
On Collaboration
The digitisation process
Computational methods, infrastructure and skills
The Environmental Scan
The Language of Mechanisation
MapReader
Beyond the tracks
Census data
Crowdsourcing
Exhibition
Check out the playlist! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuD_SqLtxSdWMYcu5YQDGqP9AGejg_cBb
Delighted that one of our exhibition photos made it onto Flickr Explore as part of Flickr Commons 16th birthday celebrations!
This factory clocking-in clock was part of a section on how mechanisation changed our sense of time
Photo credit David Lindsay
New blog post! 'Public domain newspaper titles in Living with Machines' https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/public-domain-newspaper-titles-in-living-with-machines/
Want to have a play with automatically-transcribed text from those titles? https://bl.iro.bl.uk/collections/9a6a4cdd-2bfe-47bb-8c14-c0a5d100501f?locale=en
More chapters from our final book are available for open peer review! https://read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/living-with-machines
Chapter 3: Beyond the Tracks
Chapter 5: Analysing the language of mechanisation in nineteenth-century British newspapers
@flickrfdn@glammr.us I totally wouldn't have got that!
Congratulations Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social on releasing...
Map census variables at street level with: AddressGB: Geo-coded British Census Addresses, 1851-1911 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10473597
Evaluate the results (or your own!) with AddressGB Manual Evaluation Sample https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13770048
Have you seen the video case studies coming out from our project?
How did the project look at rail infrastructure and the impact it had on people living near it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgNLI-3lJA
How did the project use census data? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7QT8QVs3Ic
#AI #MachineLearning #collaboration #DataScience #history #DigitalHistory #C19th
Watch our team members @mia@hcommons.social and Kaspar Beelen on 'Scaling up historical practice with digital machines'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv5eiwk4KQ0
Forschungskolloquiums "Digital History" an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Das interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Projekt untersuchte mithilfe von Machine-Learning-Ansätzen den Einfluss der industrielle Revolution und insbesondere der Technologien auf das menschliche Leben anhand verschiedener Quellenkorpora, wie digitalisierten Zeitungen, Volkszählungen oder Karten.
The project may be winding down, but we have fresh research for you. New blogpost by @danielwilson@masto.ai about a long research article: 'The Living Machine', published this week in history journal Technology & Culture. More details to follow... #history #histtech https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/stop-press-the-living-machine/