Elton Barker

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Professor of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | works on Homer, historiography, tragedy, digital approaches | interested in the politics of form, literary geographies, agonism, semantic annotation, linked data | General Secretary of @PelagiosNetwork
Homepagehttps://www.open.ac.uk/people/eteb2
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9517-1176
Pelagioshttps://pelagios.org/
Homer bookhttps://oneworld-publications.com/work/homer/
Elton BarkerOct 12, 2023
MiaOct 11, 2023

I've uploaded my keynote slides for #EuropeanaTech2023
'Enriching lives: connecting communities and culture with the help of machines' https://zenodo.org/record/8429858

I'm looking at how AI / machine learning and crowdsourcing / online volunteering can work together for 'volunteer enrichment' in GLAMs

Enriching lives: connecting communities and culture with the help of machines

Keynote for the EuropeanaTech 2023 conference, The Hague, the Netherlands and online from 10 - 12 October 2023 I’ll begin with an overview of current developments in AI and machine learning, then present work with crowdsourcing from the Living with Machines project to think about what AI means for online volunteers and communities around digital cultural heritage. I’ll share new thinking on ‘volunteer enrichment’ – participation in crowdsourcing that not only enriches and enhances collections records, but also enriches the lives of volunteers. How can we embed GLAM values when we apply AI and machine learning tools in our work? https://pro.europeana.eu/page/europeanatech

Zenodo
Elton BarkerOct 1, 2023

Tomorrow (2 October) at 14:00 BST, the Pelagios Annotation Activity will be hearing from software developers Jamie Folsom and Rainer Simon @aboutgeo on the future of Pelagios's open-source annotation platform Recogito.

Discussion will include the following topics:
- The current state-of-play of the new and shiny Recogito.
- Details of the new core idea of a modular-style Recogito that can be adapted to serve the needs of different user-groups.
- Different potential models of funding to ensure sustainable development and hosting.

All are welcome! Please email [email protected] for the zoom link.

#linkeddata #LinkedPasts #glam #annotation #geography #SemanticWeb #OpenData

Elton BarkerSep 29, 2023
UCLAB PotsdamSep 29, 2023

Why should design research be part of data services in the GLAM sector?

Watch @ikyriazi present #RestagingFashion https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/projects/restaging-fashion/ on 11 October at EuropeanaTech.

Book your free online ticket here: https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/EuropeanaTech2023/

#EuropeanaTech2023 #OpenGlam #DigitalCulturalHeritage

RESTAGING FASHION - UCLAB – FH Potsdam

Based on images of Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek, Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (CC-BY-NC-SA) Forming the core of the project, the paintings collection of the Berlin publishers Franz and Frieda von Lipperheide holds 600 paintings and miniatures from the 15th to the 19th century. In the digital environment, this previously unpublished collection of the Lipperheide Costume Library […]

UCLAB – FH Potsdam
Elton BarkerSep 28, 2023
Stefan BohacekSep 28, 2023

The David Rumsey Map Collection, a home to tens of thousands of historical maps, now lets you search the collection by the text in the maps.

https://www.davidrumsey.com/

Via https://flowingdata.com/2023/09/28/search-the-text-in-historical-maps/

#data #dataviz #maps

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection

Elton BarkerSep 28, 2023
LAB1100Sep 28, 2023

Blog post about a new #nodegoat Guide: Use any @IIIF Published Map as a Background in your Geographic Visualisations

Thanks to the Allmaps (https://allmaps.org) project, it is now possible to use any map that has been published as a #IIIF image as a background map in your geographic data visualisations in #nodegoat.

https://nodegoat.net/blog.s/68/use-any-iiif-published-map-as-a-background-in-your-geographic-visualisations

#digitalhistory #histodons #maps #DigitalHumanities #dataviz @histodons

Allmaps

Curating, georeferencing and exploring for IIIF maps

Allmaps
Elton BarkerSep 27, 2023
Adi Keinan-SchoonbaertSep 25, 2023

More Convert-a-Card card catalogue retroconversion extravaganza! Our brilliant RSE Harry Lloyd has been working to automate the process of creating e-records from physical cards. He's also creating a web-based tool for BL cataloguers and curators to make expert-human decisions.

Check it out! https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-helping-cataloguers-derive-records-with-oclc-and-python.html

#BritishLibrary @BL_DigiSchol #Chinese #Urdu #Indonesian

Elton BarkerSep 27, 2023
Tim SherrattSep 25, 2023
New #openAccess publication! "An approach to assess the quality of Jupyter projects published by GLAM institutions": https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24835 Hopefully it'll be a useful contribution to discussions around best practice. Thanks to my co-authors for doing most of the work! #GLAM #jupyter #collectionsAsData
Elton BarkerSep 25, 2023
Tom ElliottSep 25, 2023

The #ISAWNYU outreach program "Enhancing the Ancient World for #Teachers" has announced 3 online workshops to be offered in November and December 2023:

Reckoning with Ancient Fragments: The Transcultural World of the #Sogdians

#Greece, #Egypt, and the Body: #Dissection and #Mummification in Cross-Cultural Perspective

#Nomads in World History: How Human Mobility Shapes Society

More info & to register (required): https://isaw.nyu.edu/outreach/etaw-workshops

Boosts appreciated.

#ancientHistory #archaeology

Upcoming Workshops

A listing of events sponsored by the ISAW ETAW program (Expanding the Ancient World) for teachers.

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Elton BarkerSep 19, 2023
Dr. Verónica EspinozaJul 29, 2023

Hello everyone, I share with you some networks that I have made in different tools for network analysis.

#Gephi #networkscience #DataVisualization #PhD #SocialScience #postdoc #opensource #machinelearning #DataScience #neuroscience #AI #NodeXL

Elton BarkerSep 19, 2023
Frank PasqualeSep 19, 2023
Thatcher’s legacy: higher education competition in Britain “has felt both suffocating and nonsensical. More and more of our energies are diverted to competing for funds, taking part in marketing exercises or learning to speak the language of ‘excellence’ and ‘impact’. The full cost of carrying out the 2021 REF has been estimated at a scarcely credible £471 million, almost double the cost of its predecessor in 2014”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/william-davies/stay-away-from-politics
William Davies · Stay away from politics: Why Weber? · LRB 21 September 2023

Weber insists that everything remain in its rightful place. Politicians should stick to politics, and scientists to...

London Review of Books