This paper creates a conceptual frame and explanatory point of reference for the collection of papers presented at the exploratory workshop “Data Science for Digital Art History: Tackling Big Data Challenges, Algorithms, and Systems” organized at the KDD 2018 Conference in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery held in London in August 2018.
Read MoreNavigating Museum Collections using Formal Concept Analysis
The digital medium allows visitors, curators and art historians to gain new insights into their collections through data analysis and rich, interactive visualizations. Motivated by the rise of large-scale cultural heritage collections that have emerged on the Web, we argue that Formal Concept Analysis can be used to highlight the relationships between objects and their features within digital art collections and provide a means for visitors to explore these collections via interactive, narrated pathways.
Read MoreThe Problem of Distance in Digital Art History
This paper describes an intervention that seeks to combine the qualitative with the quantitative through collaborative research, expressive structured data, and a human-centered and participatory approach to the ‘knowledge graph’.
Read MoreSetting up a DH Curriculum or Certificate Roundtable Summary
This summary is a short overview of a roundtable discussion that took place at the Renaissance Society of America on the topic of the structure and organization of a Digital Humanities curriculum.
Read MoreFull Issue: Digital Space and Architecture
FULL ISSUE. Art history is centrally concerned with a vast array of three-dimensional objects, such as sculptures, and spaces, such as architecture. Digital technologies allow the creation of virtual spaces…
Read MoreEditorial: Creating New Spaces in Art History
Art History is much more than a discipline of flat, 2D images. Even digital image atlases and metapictures often surpass the limitations…
Read MoreFeatured Article: Big Data and the End of History
As data storage, computational processing power, and retrieval costs diminish, many traditional technologies of data-compression are becoming obsolete.
Read MoreInterview: CyArk
CyArk is a California-based nonprofit dedicated to digitally documenting and preserving world heritage.
Read More3D Reconstruction Techniques as a Cultural Shift?
Digital 3D reconstruction methods have been widely applied to support research and the presentation of historical objects since the 1980s…
Read More(Re-)Creating the past: 10 years using BIM
Digital 3D reconstruction methods have been widely applied to support research and the presentation of historical objects since the 1980s…
Read MoreUncertainty Visualization and 3D in Archaeology
A range of disciplinary approaches were surveyed with regard to methods and techniques developed to deal with uncertainty.
Read MoreComputational Imagination
This essay explores current possibilities and limits of computational techniques applied to the cultural and historical studies of images.
Read MoreA Role-Based Model for Successful Collaboration
Sustained dialogue and collaborative work between art historians and technologists has a great deal to offer both fields of inquiry.
Read MoreAgainst Digital Art History
This article responds to two issues affecting the field of contemporary art history: digital technology and the so-called computational turn in the humanities.
Read MoreBig Bang Art History
The History of Art is in the midst of its own big bang.
Read MoreSummer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS)
The Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS) is an ongoing joint initiative of the University of Málaga and the University of California, Berkeley.
Read MoreCoding Dürer: International Interdisciplinary Hackathon
A highly interdisciplinary field such as digital art history requires specialized skills.
Read MoreFull Issue: Visualizing Big Image Data
FULL ISSUE! Big Data and Big Image Data (BID) open up tantalizing new vistas to the art historian.
Read MoreEditorial: Big Image Data as research opportunity
Big Image Data adds a new tonal range to our discipline without discarding any of the traditional art historical methods.
Read MoreFeatured Article: Figuring out Art History
As a myriad of new artefacts veils the view into the past, like city lights covering the night sky, it is easy to forget that there is more than one Starry Night…
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