Rethinking Digital Infrastructure: What a Computational Historian Needs
These are slightly edited speaking notes. You can find the slides here I have a confession. I’ve never successfully used a CLARIAH tool in my research. And it’s not because I don’t do computational work, I do, constantly. Right now I’m using visual language models to transform archival collections from the Amsterdam City Archive into structured data. I’m analyzing bias in the National Archives’ photo collections: thousands of images, examined with diversity metrics borrowed from ecology....