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Data, Culture & Society

Data, Culture & Society

This is the team blog for the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society, where we share what we are working on, how we work, and the insights and ideas we are developing through our projects and activities.

Author: lkumoyo

From image to text: experience of an Optical Character Recognition Intern

Since April, PhD student Ash Charlton has been an Intern with the University of Edinburgh’s Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service (CHDS) and the Centre for Data, Culture and Society (CDCS), looking into text extraction processes at the University through Optical Character Recognition (OCR).     My position as OCR intern entailed exploring text extraction both in library […]

14 August 2023 0

Libraries and Artificial Intelligence

  Lucy Dalgleish took part in the NLS-CDCS Digital Research Internship in AI. She was based in the National Library of Scotland and was funded by CDCS. Her article, below, focuses on Libraries and Artificial Intelligence   Libraries and Artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the information landscape and as such has the potential […]

11 January 2023 0

CDCS Digitisation Internship: Creating the Managing Digitised Documents Pathway

  In February 2022, PhD students Vesna Curlic and Ash Charlton began their digitisation internships in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Library and University Collections and the Centre for Data, Culture, and Society. Together, they reflect on the creation of a CDCS Training Pathway which will direct people towards resources for managing and working […]

6 September 2022 0

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