by Jon Weinbren, University of Surrey [Obraz is the anglicised spelling of the Russian polyseme образ, which can be roughly translated as character, image, representation, likeness, or similitude.] This is…Read More >
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“Bringing History to Life”: Animating Historical Portraits with Artificial Intelligence
by Cate Cleo Alexander, University of Toronto It’s the hot new trend in the historic photo colourization community: AI generated movement. Recently, content creators on platforms like YouTube have started to…Read More >
A Chaucer AI Co-Pilot? Reflections on the Implications of LLMs for Learning about Medieval Texts and Beyond
by Sophie Whittle, Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield Introduction In June, I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural DH and AI conference at Reading. Since then, I…Read More >
Developing AI-based Agents for Automating Linguistic Research Workflows: Fine-tuning Corpus Annotators as an Example
by Abdulrahman A. A. Alsayed University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia Recent strides in generative AI development and the emerging abilities of pre-trained models (Wei…Read More >
AI as a Cataloguing Aid? Towards a Workflow for Cultural Heritage Accessibility and Engagement
by José Pedro Sousa Centre for Theatre Studies, University of Lisbon / Library Services, Imperial College London Introduction Archival research is a gateway to the past, offering invaluable insights into…Read More >
The Illusion of Knowledge: Interpreting Generative AI Hallucinations in the Study of Humanities and the Black Box of LLMs
by Amina El Ganadi and Federico Ruozzi The Phenomenon of AI Hallucinations As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), become increasingly integrated into humanities research, a new…Read More >
Classifying Portable Antiquities with AI
by Mark McKerracher, Abhishek Dutta, Megan Gooch, Helena Hamerow, Horace Lee, Michael Lewis and Andrew Zisserman The British Museum holds millions of objects spanning millennia of human history. But it…Read More >
Diaries from the Digital Humanities & Artificial Intelligence Conference
As we continue with our DH & AI guest blog series, we cast our minds back to the DH & AI conference in June. With three strands - cultural heritage,...Read More >
AI and Visual Page Design: a Study of Dante’s Commedia in Print
by Professor Guyda Armstrong, Dr Giles Bergel and Dr Rebecca Bowen ‘Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page’ (ENVDANTE) offers the first in-depth study of…Read More >
Reflections on the Digital Humanities Community of Practice’s Inaugural Conference
Our DH Academic Champion and Community of Practice lead, Dr Mara Oliva, shares her reflections on the CoP’s inaugural conference on our Connecting Research blog. The conference, on the theme…Read More >