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Building the social graph of the history of European integration: a pipeline for humanist-machine interaction in the digital humanities

  • Lars Wieneke
  • , Marten Düring
  • , Ghislain Silaume
  • , Carine Lallemand
  • , Vincenzo Croce
  • , Marilena Lazzarro
  • , Francesco Nucci
  • , Chiara Pasini
  • , Piero Fraternali
  • , Marco Tagliasacchi
  • , Mark Melenhorst
  • , Jasminko Novak
  • , Isabel Micheel
  • , Erik Harloff
  • , Javier Garcia Moron

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

The breadth and scale of multimedia archives provides a tremendous potential for historical research that hasn't been fully tapped up to know. In this paper we want to discuss the approach taken by the History of Europe application, a demonstrator for the integration of human and machine computation that combines the power of face recognition technology with two distinctively different crowd-sourcing approaches to compute co-occurrences of persons in historical image sets. These co-occurrences are turned into a social graph that connects persons with each other and positions them, through information about the date and location of recording, in time and space. The resulting visualization of the graph as well as analytical tools can help historians to find new impulses for research and to un-earth previously unknown relationships. As such the integration of human expertise and machine computation enables a new class of applications for the exploration of multimedia archives with significant potential for the digital humanities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Informatics - SocInfo 2013 International Workshops QMC and HISTOINFORMATICS, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer
Pages86-99
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783642552847
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2013 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 25 Nov 2013 → 25 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8359 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period25/11/13 → 25/11/13

Keywords

  • Data visualization
  • Digital Humanities
  • Entity linking
  • European Studies
  • Face recognition
  • History
  • Human-machine Interaction
  • User centered design

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