Resources for Instructors

L e a r n i n g - b y - A n a l y z i n g

Diverse Cultural Heritage Entities
Processed in the New Age of AI

The star* = newly updated* or added**

Go to the links listed below. Analyze the real projects. Understand the opportunities and challenges in processing diverse cultural heritage entities in the new age of AI.

1. Manuscripts  

• eScriptorium, a web application offering a workspace to manage the various steps of a transcription campaign. 

  https://escriptorium.inria.fr/ 

  • Check its Tutorial (under "Resources" on this page and go through some. E.g., Manual transcription).

2. Images

• AI Explores, Harvard Art Museums
       -- AI Explorer home
  
  1. Go to https://ai.harvardartmuseums.org/  
          -> Choose Start Exploring --> then, click on Category Search 
          --> Explore these two categories: People portraits and Pets animals
         ----> Make a note and answer Q1: Do these categories have the correct/incorrect contents?   
  2. Click on any categorized image and see the Human Generated Data and Machine Generated Data.
         Think and answer Q2: How do machines auto categorize images: Isness, Aboutness, and/or Ofness? 
     
     
• AI Collection Toolsets, Cleveland Museum of Art
  https://www.clevelandart.org/digital-innovations
  • AI: Extend the Art https://www.clevelandart.org/digital-innovations/extend-art
  • AI: Share Your View https://www.clevelandart.org/digital-innovations/share-your-view
  • AI: ArtLens for Slack https://www.clevelandart.org/digital-innovations/artlens-for-slack
    

3. Sound

• Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
  https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/index.html
  • Choose "Listen" --> Browse Collection --> Find any book to listen to
    https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/browse.html
    
    
• Wildlife media archive, Cornell Univ. Macaulay Library
  https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/
  
  • Click on "Listen" at the lower-right on the page; listen.
    
    
  • Learn about its "Machine Learning at Macaulay Library"
    https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/machine-learning/
    

4. Scents

• Odeuropa project
  https://odeuropa.eu/
  -- applies state-of-the-art AI techniques to cultural heritage text and image datasets spanning centuries of European history (1600-1920) to identify and trace how ‘smell’ was expressed in different languages, what kinds of practices it characterized, and to what emotions it was linked.
  
  
  • The Odeuropa Smell Explorer
    https://explorer.odeuropa.eu
  • Encyclopedia of Smell History and Heritage
    https://odeuropa.eu/encyclopedia/
    
  • Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit
    https://odeuropa.eu/the-olfactory-storytelling-toolkit/
    
  • The Heritage Smell Library
    https://odeuropa.eu/the-heritage-smell-library/
    

5. Museum specimens

• Read: "Global push to put natural history collections online gets major U.K. boost"
  - London's Natural History Museum gets nearly $200 million to scan country's collections
  https://www.science.org/content/article/global-push-put-natural-history-collections-online-gets-major-u-k-boost . -- Science, Vol 384, Issue 6691. April, 2024

6. 3D+

• EUreka3D - European Union's REKonstructed content in 3D
  https://pro.europeana.eu/project/eureka3d-european-union-s-rekonstructed-content-in-3d
• 5DCulture - Deploying and demonstrating a 3D cultural heritage space
  https://pro.europeana.eu/project/5dculture-deploying-and-demonstrating-a-3d-cultural-heritage-space
• DE-BIAS - Detecting and cur(at)ing harmful language in cultural heritage collections
  https://pro.europeana.eu/project/de-bias
• AI4Europeana - An AI platform for the cultural heritage data space
  https://pro.europeana.eu/project/ai4culture-an-ai-platform-for-the-cultural-heritage-data-space
  

7. Rock Art

• Read: "Artificial intelligence helps catalogue Aboriginal rock art in Far North Queensland"
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-15/artificial-intelligence-rock-art-far-north-queensland-indigenous/102851802
  
  
• Read: "Artificial intelligence is helping researchers identify and analyse some of the world’s oldest art"
  https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/21/artificial-intelligence-ancient-rock-art-australia-andrea-jalandoni

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