Report: “How Machine Learning is Bringing National Library of Scotland’s Maps to Life”
From The Scotsman:
What if machine learning meant that you didn’t have to have a definitive starting point and the reams of records in the archives could be explored and enjoyed visually?
That is the vision of Martin Disley who has been creating datasets from across the National Library of Scotland’s (NLS) map collection.
His project, which is part of the Creative Informatics Resident Entrepreneur project at the University of Edinburgh, curated datasets of images previously scanned by the NLS to feed a machine learningmodel. The newly-created machine learning model then creates ‘fake’ versions of the images that it is trained upon.
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See Also: Creative Informatics Programmme, University of Edinburgh
See Also: Creative Informatics Programmme Research Blog
See Also: National Library of Scotland Digital Resources
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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