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Hello - Hope you're research is going well. Is there an end date for the questionnaire?
I'm not a photo historian, but do have my experience in trying to locate photographs of people of color in historical records, if…"
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Photohistory questionnaire for PhD thesis
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Hello everyone,My name is David Croft and I am currently working on my PhD at De Montfort University.For my thesis I am trying to use various artificial intelligence techniques to identify when the…Continue
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Photographic process misidentification rates in professional collections.
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Hi all,For my research I need to be able to compare the different processes used between pairs of records and to identify the similarity of the processes mentioned in each record. However, part of…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Terry King Jun 6, 2012.
PhD student after your views on searching digitised photographic collections
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Hello everyone,My name is David Croft and I am currently working on my PhD at De Montfort University.For my thesis I am looking at a new way of searching digitised museum collections for multiple…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ian Glover May 6, 2012.
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Hello everyone,My name is David Croft and I am currently working on my PhD at De Montfort University.For my thesis I am trying to use various artificial intelligence techniques to identify when the same picture is appearing in different collections. Basically just trying to identify co-referent records so that information which is missing from one record can be used to fill out gaps in the other. There are other possible applications but that's the focus right now.The hope is that using AI…See More
Terry King replied to David Croft's discussion Photographic process misidentification rates in professional collections."One's own experience tends one to believe that often those classifying prints have not had sufficient training.
One significant travelling international exhibition, despite the plate marks, had all the large gravures labelled as platinum…"
David Croft posted a discussionPhotographic process misidentification rates in professional collections.
Hi all,For my research I need to be able to compare the different processes used between pairs of records and to identify the similarity of the processes mentioned in each record. However, part of the challenge in doing this is that the process listed in the metadata is not always correct. For example, tin types listed as dagarotypes. Is anyone aware of any research, or even better any figures, on the rates of process misidentification in collections?ThanksDavidSee More
Ian Glover replied to David Croft's discussion PhD student after your views on searching digitised photographic collections"Hi, I am beginning a personal project recording collections. I am programme leader for BA photo at Bolton uni and from a creative photographic background. I started my photo career at 16 then got into practice first then research. I have some work…"
David Croft posted a discussionPhD student after your views on searching digital photographic collections
Hello everyone,My name is David Croft and I am currently working on my PhD at De Montfort University.For my thesis I am looking at a new way of searching digitised museum collections for multiple appearances by the same item.I am trying to use a technique called Fuzzy Clustering, the basic idea is to improve matching by loosely comparing the entirety of the records.However, my background is entirely in the computer sciences and not the humanities/photography. How I search for records is likely…See More
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