Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Rethinking Access to Ancient Coins: A Reflective Transformation Imaging Story

Scott Coleman is a PhD candidate in the Department of History For my first Xlab post, I will discuss how I came to be part of this extraordinary group of scholars seeking to push the boundaries of digital scholarship. I first joined the Xlab team in the fall of 2021. I intended to perform... More

Thursday, October 20, 2022

For your toolbox: AI transcription for audio files

Katherine Davidson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology For those of us using audio recording for data collection - one-on-one or group interviews, archival audio, collaborative audio-visual methods - having a good resource for accurate and fast transcription is a game-changer. Transcription services quickly turn your... More

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Paying it Back and Forward

Katherine Davidson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology On October 3rd, 2022, John Oliver aired a special on museums and colonial looting, featuring a short called “The Payback Museum”. Kumail Nanjiani takes viewers on a tour of all the places that nations would display their cultural heritage, had it... More

Thursday, October 13, 2022

Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs

Jonah Ellens is a second year student in the Department of History This year I’m continuing to assist Xlab’s 'The New Organigram Project' as a researcher. For the Organigram Project uses machine learning to help build a knowledge graph modelling the trafficking of stolen antiquities. To support the work, I get to delve into... More

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

An environmental scan of Algorithmic Harm & Indigenous Social Media

Recently, our partners at Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations http://icmi.ca/  reached out to us with a question. They have a project exploring how Indigenous peoples in Canada use social media for expression and community engagement. One aspect of this project is to explore how the underlying algorithms of social media - the videos that... More

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Unconference to set the stage

To set the stage for this year's work, we're holding a grand meeting of all collaborators and partners and students using an unconference format. But of course we're still in lockdown, so we're going to use the wonder.me  service which allows for a kind of spatialized meeting to take place. We used it to... More

Monday, April 26, 2021

Getting Started

Our goal is to foster CHI as an interdisciplinary field studying and pursuing the effective use of cultural heritage data, information, and knowledge for humanistic or scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human well-being. Cultural Heritage Informatics deals with managing the problems and... More

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