April 24 – practical DH seminar “What to do with a table?!”
Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (ILFA) Digital Humanities (DH) seminar series continues to develop. This spring, a new thematic strand has been introduced – “Digital tools I use”. The aim of this initiative is to create a space for researchers who use digital methods in their work to share practical experience: to demonstrate their workflows, talk about the tools they use, and openly discuss not only successes but also challenges, mistakes, and solutions. The new format emphasizes the exchange of experience “from practice to practice”.
Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Preservation of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage
On March 27 and April 4, the
Digital Humanities Center
(DHC) of the Faculty
of Humanities (HZF) and the Library of the University of Latvia
(LUB) organized two Ukrainian cultural heritage data workshops as
citizen science activities within the framework of the AISTER
project. Participants included youth from
the Ukrainian community and their friends from
Young Folks LV,
members of academia, and other
interested individuals. Together, they helped to improve an Artificial Intelligence
(AI) prototype's ability to recognize
elements within images of Ukrainian ethnographic artifacts.
The work took place on Europeana CrowdHeritage, a platform created for crowdsourcing campaigns using metadata from European cultural heritage institutions, utilizing a prototype developed by the AISTER project partner, Web2Learn.