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Early conflict photography as data: an overview of the EyCon project

DHAI Seminar 2022-2023
Tuesday 4 April 2023 Tuesday 4 April 2023
From 12 to 2 PM
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ENS, Centre de Sciences des Données / online

ENS-PSL
45 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
France

48.8422951, 2.3442717

DHAI Seminar, with Daniel Foliard, Soumik Mallick, Julien Schuh, Marina Giardinetti, and Mohamed Salim Aissi

The presentation will provide an overview of a project that aims at aggregating a thematic collection focusing on early conflict photography (1890-1918). The EyCon research project is experimenting with AI techniques to augment historical enquiry and data enrichment of a large visual corpus of historical photographs. It will add automatically enriched metadata to its online database and publish a prototype for the inclusion of AI functionalities into similar repositories. The team also reflects on the ethics of showing and facilitating access to a potentially contested material. The presentation will discuss the project's perimeter, its data architecture and provide case studies of how AI can be applied to late 19th c./early 20th c. photographs.

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Tuesday 4 April 2023